When civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis begins comparing Ferguson to the violence of the civil rights movement, people should pay attention. “Ferguson, Missouri is part of the United States of America,” he noted. “People have a right to protest, they have a right to dissent, they have a right to march in an orderly, peaceful, nonviolent fashion, and the press has a right to cover it.” Ferguson, he added, is “not the Congo, it is not China, it is not Russia.