[ applause ] a few years ago we began inviting a giant of the bench or bar to offer reflections to our entering class and its been an extraordinary opportunity for our students as you embark on your Legal Education to listen to and to learn from someone whose career has shaped the law. And by attending georgetown law youve chosen to learn the law in the place where laws are made and this is evident in the speakers who have welcomed our first year students. So in the past few years people have heard from justices stevens and the late justice scalia. And we have been so fortunate the last two years this is the second year in a row to be joined by the legendary Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. [ applause ] so i know that a long introduction of Justice Ginsburg is not necessary for georgetown students. As you progresses in your studies at the law center youll read and discuss from many powerful and Supreme Court decisions as well as her pointd and influential descents. And youll also learn tha
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Simple answers. When democracy is under threat, citizens take to the streets. Civil society becomes active, using preferably nonviolence as a form of resistance. And that requires clear messages and strong symbols. In serbia, we meet professionals in the field who say their most important weapon is humor. In protest or in life, its all the same the person you want to be around is the person who can make you laugh. And in our experience in serbia, the government didnt know what to do with being mocked. Because this people in power, they just think too highly and too seriously about themselves. If you mock them, than they do something stupid. These two men are in a way professional revolutionaries. They come from belgrade. Thats where their careers began. It was the mid1990s. Together with other students in the group otpor, they had a goal to topple thenpresident slobodan miloevic and set the stage for free elections. Their tactic nonviolent resistance, much of it based on humor in actio