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4 UNIVERSITY OF TilE DISTRICr OF COLUMBIA LAW REVIEWNow, where do we begin? To me, it seems appropriate to start by thinkingabout the one event that's on a lot of our minds right now - the World Cup. Iknow that many of you have already cleared your schedules for lOam tomorrow,when the U.S. takes on Slovenia. But more importantly we should also take timeto think about where this historic game will be played.As all of you know, and some remember well, South Africa was - at one time- the last place on Earth where you could imagine people of all cultures comingtogether. In the era of Apartheid, South Africa's laws supported a system, not ofjustice but of injustice. Its legal framework enshrined bigotry, enforced discrimination,and spread hate from Cape Town to Johannesburg to Robben Island. Thissystem of oppression enraged citizens within and beyond South Africa. It alsomotivated American law students like me, who spent a lot of time away from ourstudies to call for reform from half way across the world.For my most famous predecessor, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, thelaws of Apartheid, and of any system of segregation, were particularly offensive.In fact, forty-four years ago this month, he'traveled to South Africa to deliver aspeech at the University of Cape Town - just minutes from the stadium wheremany World Cup games are being played. In his now-famous "Day of Affirmation"address, Attorney General Kennedy spoke about the right to justice, thepower of action, and the possibilities born from hope. As he said to all thoselistening in South Africa, and all those watching around the world, "Each time aman stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes outagainst injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."Those ripples," Robert Kennedy assured us, can "build a current which cansweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."Those were beautiful words, but they were more than rhetoric. They were acall to every member of the global community to embrace the idea - indeed thetruth - that, more than any policy or program, any controversy or case, justicebegins with individual acts. And it is from many acts of courage, service, andgreat sacrifice that a nation once known for division is now celebrated and admiredaround the globe for its method to deal with its past and its power to unite.So, what exactly are these tiny ripples? Where do we find them? And how dowe initiate them? I have grappled with such questions throughout my entire career.And I expect many of you struggle with them, as well.But I have also learned a few things. And I have seen these so-called "ripples,"time and time again, during a life spent studying and practicing law - first, as alaw student, when I spent a summer interning at the N.A.A.C.P.'s Legal DefenseFund, working on some of the civil rights cases of the day. I saw them again aftergraduation, when I came to work in the Justice Department's new Public IntegritySection.That, however, was only the start. As a judge in D.C. Superior Court, I sawripples of hope in the heroic stories of law enforcement officials who stood up for
18TH ANNUAL JOSEPH L. RAUH, JR. LECfURE 5public safety. I saw them in the uplifting examples of criminals reformed, afterrehabilitation, and turned into productive citizens. As U.S. Attorney for the Districtof Columbia, I saw hope in the activism of community members who cametogether in times of crisis to safeguard their neighborhoods and help to prevent,not only punish, violence. And when I served as Deputy Attorney General andwas asked by President Clinton to lead Lawyers for One America, I saw thoseripples of hope in the attorneys, all across this nation, who banded together forthe shared purpose of addressing and eliminating racial inequality in our legalsystem.Over many years, in many different ways, I have learned that ripples of hope -and rooting out injustice one individual action at a time - can take many forms.There is no one way to fight for what's right. I have also learned that achievingjustice, like accomplishing anything worthwhile, does not come easily. But thepath to justice always starts with a single action - and in 2010 it must start withyou.Of course, many of you already know this. The students here, in the traditionof the Clarke School of Law, have already been working to fulfill the promise ofjustice -long before studying for the Bar Exam. Although this is a small school -with only 300 students - you annually provide more than 85,000 hours of publicservice to low-income community members. And each UDC law student is requiredto provide at least 700 hours of clinical service - to helpless tenants, vulnerableseniors, suffering HIV/AIDS patients, needy children, communitygroups, and businesses.Seven hundred hours. That's incredible. Imagine, for a moment, if every lawstudent in the country were to give back, as UDC students do, while earning theirdegrees. Since there are approximately 150,000 law students at anyone time inthis country, that would mean about 100 million hours of clinical services combined- enough to turn tens of thousands of ripples of hope into that "currentwhich can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." I hopethat, now, you can start to see my vision, my hope.Your responsibility to serve others has proven to be not only an effectivemeans of providing your community with much-needed legal assistance, but alsoan effective means of learning the law. Joseph Rauh predicted it would be - andyour example shows that he was right. Today, we can all be encouraged that lawschools across the country are taking steps to promote public service and to createopportunities for students to help meet community needs. But I agree withthe assertion by UDC's leadership that all publicly funded law schools shouldlook to the Clarke School of Law for inspiration and consider a similar servicerequirement. That would be a profound and powerful change. And it would lead,no doubt, to a more just nation and world.Such a paradigm shift in legal education would also align with what I see as aninflection point in our justice system. I believe we have arrived at a watershed
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