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South Carolina Justice Project
We are a nonprofit civil rights law firm providing high quality legal representation to victims of civil rights violations across South Carolina.
Our organization is sustained by the gracious support of our community, which ensures that our clients never have to pay a retainer to demand justice and accountability.
Join our mission to provide attorneys to the victims of civil rights abuses in South Carolina by donating today.
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Ways We Intervene
Litigation
SCJP’s primary function is to seek damages and injunctive relief in state and federal court on behalf of victims of civil rights abuses.
Support
SCJP helps equip and enable other civil rights attorneys in South Carolina by providing free access to relevant trainings and resources.
Education
SCJP helps community members understand their rights so that they can exercise them with confidence. Contact us today.
Income ≠ Outcome
Civil rights abuses are most frequently committed against members of our poor, vulnerable, and marginalized communities. Because of their lack of wealth and institutional power, these victims are often left unable to demand justice and accountability against the state officials that violated their rights.
At SCJP we depend on the generous support of our community to ensure that wealth is not a barrier to seeking justice, accountability, and systemic change. We also avail ourselves of certain federal fee-shifting statutes to ensure that each case we win for our clients also helps to ensure the continued financial health of our organization.
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If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
– Frederick Douglass, 1857 West India Emancipation Speech