The Reverand Joseph Lowery was released from an Atlanta hospital on Saturday night.
The 88-year-old was admitted to the hospital two weeks ago with a blood clot in his lung.
Lowery stood with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement and offered the benediction at President Barack Obama's inauguration last year.
Lowery received the Presidential Medal of Freedom several months later. He co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference along with King and was the group's president for two decades.
