The purpose of dissent
is to speak for tomorrow,
to fight for what’s true,
convincing others to follow you
is to speak for tomorrow,
to fight for what’s true,
convincing others to follow you
to a future with nine women
ruling the highest of courts,
none of them a token.
To a land where the immigrants
can become the best of us,
where a person’s dignity
cannot be usurped by a stranger
and independence
is the most precious of human rights.
The next generation
need not be so deaf
to the cries of the searched
and the seized, let the history books
be written
by those who have been
thirteen year old girls.
ruling the highest of courts,
none of them a token.
To a land where the immigrants
can become the best of us,
where a person’s dignity
cannot be usurped by a stranger
and independence
is the most precious of human rights.
The next generation
need not be so deaf
to the cries of the searched
and the seized, let the history books
be written
by those who have been
thirteen year old girls.
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