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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Benjamin T. Jealous urged a group of aspiring attorneys to use their influence to enact social change at a lunch event at Harvard Law School yesterday...
Jealous reminded the law students to use their influence to serve the public interest and to remain aware of the social conditions around them...
Jealous talked about his experience as an organizer and activist, advising law students about the importance that the public plays in major civil rights cases...
...Those of you who want to change the world should know the court of public opinion is paramount,” he said. “Public law is much more influenced by public opinion than they’d like to admit...
...Whenever I’m asked to speak, especially at law schools, I try to stress the impact that young lawyers can make and the nature of the times, in which we need to fight for human rights as well as civil rights,” Jealous said...