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In December 18 83 34 year old Emma Lazarus contributed a short poem to the campaign to build the base for a giant statue in New York Harbor. The daughter of a wealthy Jewish family from Manhattan, Lazarus reached across class lines to send a message to thousands of new immigrants fleeing anti Semitic violence in Russia. Lazarus died of cancer at only 37 years old. 15 years later, her poem was affixed to the base of the statue. It is her everlasting epitaph. Until we are all free. We are none of us. Free Emma Lazarus In 1916 with tensions escalating between big industry and labor, President Woodrow Wilson made a bold nomination to the United States Supreme Court. He chose Jewish lawyer and Zionist leader Louis BRANDEIS, a legendary champion of social justice and workers rights. In the decades since his death in 1941 the Supreme Court has adopted every one of his major Descents as the correct constitutional interpretation. He makes me ever hopeful when I'm writing, in descending opinion that someday in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a decade of fighting in hardship has left more than five million people dead. But for countless women and girls, a particular horror stocks them rape and its legacy of shame. In Congo, sexual violence has become a weapon of war. Tens of thousands of women have been attacked and raped in their fields, in their homes in front of their families. Congolese women tell Oxfam that they feel like they're the living dead, that their lives no longer had any value. Show them. It's not true. They're not for gotten joined a growing community of people who will not stand by any longer.