She faced many obstacles in her life even from a young age. Though chosen as the valedictorian of her high school class, she gave no graduation speech. Instead, she grieved at home with her father after burying her beloved mother one day before graduation. Her family had already suffered terrible loss with the death of her sister when Justice Ginsburg as only 14 months old. But Justice Ginsburg kept ising. A full scholarship to cornell niversity and only one of nine women in her Harvard Law School class. After transferring to columbia law school, she graduated first in her class. Yet, she could not find a job. No firm in new york would hire her because she was a woman. These obstacles didnt deter her. She pressed on. As she said in an interview with her dear friend, nina totenberg, and i quote, i get out of law school with top grades, no law firm in the city of new york will hire me. I end up teaching. That gave me time to devote to the movement of evening out the rights excuse me of women and men. I was nominated to a vacancy on he d. C. Circuit. Justice oconnor once said to me, suppose we had come of age in a time when women lawyers were welcome at the bar. You know what, today we would have been retired partners from some large law firm. But because the route was not pen for us, we had to find another way and both end up on the United States supreme court. All the days of her life, she pursued justice. Even in illness. She fought five bouts with cancer. And she supported her beloved marty through his battle with ancer as well. Ach time, she pressed forward. She returned to work, to the bench, to the court, with focus. Each and every time. [speaking hebrew] nothing was given. Pursuing justice took resilience. Persistence. Commitment to never stop. As a lawyer she won equality for women and men not in one swift victory but brick by brick, case by case, through meticulous, careful lawyering. She changed the course of american law. Even when her views did not prevail, she still fought. In recent years, Justice Ginsburg became famous for her dissent. Despair was not an option. Dissent and i quote, speaks to a future age. Its not simply to say, my colleagues are wrong and i would do it this way, but the greatest dissents do become Court Opinions and gradually, over time, their views become the dominant view. So he dissenters hope theyre writing not for today but for tomorrow. Justice ginsburgs dissent were not cries of defeat. They were blueprints for the uture. Justice ginsburg loved her family, her grandchildren, her dear friends, he colleagues, and her court family. We all send our love to you. And Justice Ginsburg also loved the court, a court to which she dwote her life. A court for all of us. It was Justice Ginsburgs tenacious hope to preserve the integrity of the court. Today she makes history again as the first woman and the first jewish woman to lie in state. Today we stand in sorrow and tomorrow, we the people must carry on Justice Ginsburgs egacy. Even as our hearts are breaking we must rise with her strength and move forward. She was our prophet, our north tar. Our strength for so very long. Now she must be permitted to rest after toiling so hard for each of us. May the memory of Justice Ginsburg forever and forever be a blessing. God, give us the strength and bless us with the courage, the intelligence, the bravery, and the unbreakable resolve to pursue justice. Amen. Late they are often, 2020 vicepresident ial candidate Kamala Harris talks with derek johnson, she will take part in a conversation on race and the president ial election. Live coverage starts in just under an hour today at 2 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. 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