Marching Orders

 

“We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe — liberty, equality and justice for all — are encountering extraordinary challenges . . . . 

“But it is also an age in which we can join hands with others who hold to those principles and face similar challenges.”

 

—Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020), associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1993-2020).

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Thanks, RBG. We can do it.

• Obit: Nina Totenberg, “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion of Gender Equality, Dies at 87,” NPR

 

 

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Half-staff and a half-moon for RBG, Trinidad, CA

  

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