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17 U. Md. L.J. Race, Religion, Gender & Class 9 (2017)
We Who Believe Cannot Rest

handle is hein.journals/margin17 and id is 13 raw text is: WE WHO BELIEVE ... CANNOT REST Martha M. Ertman* We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes. - Bernice Johnson Regon, Sweet Honey in the Rock The day after the United States inaugurated its 45th president, I found myself with generations of women - and men - marching in crowds so thick that they overflowed the official route onto satellite streets. Like thousands of others, I made my sign the evening before, pulling many of the same images off the web. We gathered around the kitchen and dining room tables and spread out onto the floor. Friends and family came from far and wide - in our case from Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Holland as well as down the street and across-town. The youngest were barely walking but up for scribbling their signs, and the oldest was a grandmother whose Statute of Liberty poster read, I'm with her. It was my 58-year-old sister's first march. My sign read, We who believe in freedom cannot rest, and would have included the rest of the line-...until it comes-from Ella's Song by Sweet Honey in the Rock' had I had room. Down on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., we had plenty of time to check out the many signs that mirrored our own hand-lettered calls for resistance, solidarity, and our common humanity. Many featured the woman symbol with a fist and images by Shepard Fairey, the artist responsible for the iconic red, white, and blue poster of Barack Obama that is captioned hope.,2 My wife spotted a man with his own sign that mirrored mine exactly - a complete stranger whose outrage also called him to the civil rights song by the Grammy-winning acapella ensemble, Sweet Honey in the Rock, coupled with the fist-filled woman symbol. * Carole & Hanan Sibel Research Professor, University of Maryland Francis King Carey Law School. ' SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK, ELLA'S SONG (1988). 2 James Dempsey, Creator of Obama's Hope' Poster Designs Three New Anti- Trump Images, NEwsTALK (Jan. 19, 2017, 1:32 PM), http://www.newstalk.com/Creator-of-Obamas-Hope-poster-creates-three-new- antiTrump-images.