BAR REPORT - NJSBA Symposium on Race and the Law: A call for ideas and action
A selection of quotes from speakers at state bar Symposium on Race and the Law
August 31, 2020 at 08:01 AM
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Nearly 40 speakers and over 300 attendees turned out on Aug. 20 for the first symposium, an exchange of ideas on combatting systemic racism. Here's just a sampling of the voices and featured speakers heard that day.
"Civil society requires the input of lawyers in determining how to go forward. It's fair to say that from before the founding of this republic…there was a commitment to justice as a paramount foundational value. But it's been in constant tension with the terrible way in which the United States has wrestled with the question of race as to all people of color, and particularly as to those who were brought here as chattel slaves and their descendants. And that struggle requires our input at this very moment."
—Raymond M. Brown, Scarinci Hollenbeck
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