"Proud to Be a Lawyer"

Week of February 2, 2004

Ronald R. Ward, WSBA President-Elect

I want to spread the message and exemplify the fact that diversity is a strength, not a weakness. It is a significant advantage in the global marketplace, and a source of social and cultural creativity at home, without which we lose our special vibrancy and our special stability. Diversity is a touchstone; a connection there to let us know our possibilities. It is the visible, tangible actualization of not just our American commitment, but our very presence—and the conviction that we all matter; that we all have a say; that we are a community. We are all in this together. We all rise and we all fall together. Diversity tells us that we have a vision, not just of who we are, but of who we want to become. We have a lot of problems, but it is not a question of whether we can, but whether we will. We can and we will, if we work together.

—From Seattle University School of Law's Prolific Reporter, November 24, 2003

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