Lawyers have the power and the duty to make America a better place, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Saturday night, urging them to keep fighting “especially … in these alarming times.”
Holder’s remarks came while accepting the 2018 Thurgood Marshall Award of the ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice, putting him in front of a crowd with a professional commitment to fighting injustice.
“Some of the pillars of our democracy—the judiciary, the media, our law enforcement apparatus—are under spurious but potentially effective attack,” said Holder, the nation’s first African-American attorney general and one of the longest serving in that office. “Now, as it was in Thurgood Marshall’s time, those who have the capacity to shape the world have the responsibility to use that power to stand up for and to defend these institutions.”
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