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"Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation,
or creed." - Bertrand Russell
"In fact, maybe the most elementary of moral principles
is that of universality,
that is, If something’s right for me, it’s right for you; if it’s wrong
for you, it’s
wrong for me. Any moral code that is even worth looking at has that at its
core
somehow...But, to try to rise to the level of becoming a minimal moral
agent,
and just enter in the domain of moral discourse is very difficult.
Because, that
means accepting the principle of universality. And you can experiment for
yourself and see how often that’s accepted, either in personal or
political life.
Very rarely."-
An Interview
with Noam Chomsky,
On
Responsibility, War Guilt
and
Intellectuals by Gabriel Mattherw
Schivone,
8/3/2007
 "Two Figures on a Tahitian Beach," Paul Gauguin |
Voltaire: A Treatise on Toleration, Chapter 22: On Universal Tolerance This little globe, which is but a point, rolls through space, as do many other globes; we are lost in the immensity of the universe. Man, only five feet high, is assuredly only a small thing in creation. One of these imperceptible beings says to another one of his neighbors, in Arabia or South Africa: 'Listen to me, because God of all these worlds has enlightened me: there are nine hundred million little ants like us on the earth, but my ant-hole is the only one dear to God; all the other are cast off by Him for eternity; mine alone will be happy, and all the others will be eternally damned." |
Nikola Tesla, (1856-1943), Autobiography. War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only though annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations. What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife. No league or parliamentary act of any kind will ever prevent such a calamity. |
Children & Tolerance
The American Forum of Global Education
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Free Child Project
Hague Appeal for Peace
Youth Network
National Youth and Student Peace Coalition
Students Against Violence Everywhere
Student Environmental Action Coalition
Study
Guide for the novel, "Number the Stars"
Study Guide for the Study Guide for the
novel
" The
Devil in
Vienna"
United Students Against Sweatshops
Why People Should Study and Remember the Holocaust
| "WAIT," SAID JIM..."WAIT,
WAIT GO BACK TO THAT OTHER PAGE." The class of thirty third graders
became quiet. "They elected a president who had slaves?" I'd been reading a
passage from Julius Lester's To Be a Slave (1968). Jim's question interrupted the reading.
After a pause he went on. "Did they know he had slaves when they elected him?" I
marveled at the question-and from an eight-year-old boy! I marveled at the discussion that
followed it. I marveled at the depth of thinking my young students had achieved." From, "Did They Know He had Slaves When They Elected Him?" Young Children Can Ask Powerful Questions, by Wendy J. Hood. This is a chapter from the book, "If This Is Social Studies, Why Isn’t It Boring?," edited by Stephanie Steffey and Wendy J. Hood, 1994, 248 pp/paperback, Stenhouse Publishers. |
The Jewish Holocaust
Why People Should Study
and Remember the Holocaust
2000 Years of Jewish Persecution
Cybrary of the
Holocaust, Remember.org
El Paso Holocaust
Museum and Study Center
Holocaust
Survivors
Holocaust Testimonies
The Holocaust\Shoah Page
The Last
Expression- Art and Auschwitz
Nizkor
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History
To Save
A Live: Stories of Jewish Rescue
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Yad
Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and
Heroes' Remembrance Authority
| "Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of
color, the most corrosive is the wound within, the
internalized racism that leads some victims, at unspeakable cost to their own sense of
self, to embrace the values of their oppressors." H. Jack Geiger "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." Maya Angelou
then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew; then they came for the Trade-Unionists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Trade-Unionist; then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I am a Protestant; then they came for me, and by that time no-one was left to speak up. Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945 Also, the Gentle Survivalist, "We are All One."
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Thoughts & Action....
The worst sin towards our
fellow creatures
is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them;
that is the essence of inhumanity.
-From The Devil's Disciple, by George Bernard Shaw
A
Force More Powerful- A Century of
Non-violent Conflict
AIDS:
Global Health Catastrophe |
Global Health Failure
American Friends Service Committee
Analysis of Bias: The Public
Record of Pat Robertson,
the President of the Christian Coalition
The Andrei Sakharov Foundation
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Center for Constitutional Rights
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute
Coalition
for an ICC
(International Criminal Court)
Coalition For International Justice
Committee for the Defense of
Human Rights
The
Consortium on Peace Research,
Education & Development
Freedom, Democracy,
Peace;
Power, Democide, and War
Global
Network Against Weapons
& Nuclear Power in Space
Guantánamo Bay - a human rights scandal
Hague Appeal for Peace
International Campaign for Tibet
Harvard
Sussex Program on
CBW (Chemical & Biological Weapons)
Armament & Arms Limitation
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Rights
Human Rights First
Human Rights Internet
Human Rights Watch |
World Report 2005
Human Rights Web
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
International
Committee of
the Red Cross
International
Coalition of Historic
Sites of Conscience
International Peace Bureau
Intolerance and the Christian Right
Islamic Human Rights Commission
The
Justice Project: Campaign Against
Wrongful Executions
Middle East Research and Information Project
The M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
The Montreal Institute for
Genocide
and Human Rights Studies
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People
National Coalition Against Censorship
National Organization of Women
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Neve Shalom/Wahat
al-Salam "I would like to see the moment when there will be such a thing as Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam not only between the Palestinians and Israelis, but between all the people in the Middle East." -Faisal al-Husseini, Palestinian Leader "Peace actually begins in our homes, in communities like this and in our hearts. And it has to be nurtured between and among human beings, and then passed on to our children." -Hillary Rodham Clinton |
Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Physicians for Social Responsibility
The Portland International
Initiative
for Ecology, Culture &
Learning
(PIIECL) & the Learning (LECL)
master's program at
Portland State
University
Professors World Peace Academy
Quakers: The Religious Society of Friends
Revolutionary
Association of the
Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
Rome Statue of the
International
Criminal Court |
U.S.
the Loser by Opposing
World
Court
Same-Sex
Marriage Civil
Unions/Marriages in Vermont
Tookie: Stands Against Gang Violence
Towards a Global Ethic (An Initial Declaration)
U.S. State
Department's Country Reports
on Human Rights
Practices
United
Nations Development
Programme
Universal
Rights Network
University
of Minnesota Human Rights Library
VietKa- Archives of the Vietnam Boat People
Vietnam War International War Crimes Tribunal
Western States Legal Foundation
Women's Action for New Directions
World Conference Against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia &
Related Intolerance
The World Development Movement
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We must be reverent toward our surroundings and share our vision of peace with everyone we meet. When all the people of the world agree
there is no need to fight, our debt to Mother Earth will be paid." |
Further Acts of Intolerance and Cruelty
The American Anti-Slavery
Group, Inc.
American Slave
Narratives
Cambodian Genocide Program- Yale University
Caste
Discrimination: A Global Concern |
End Caste
Discrimination
Genocide in
Iraq:
The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds
Clusters of Death
A global campaign is aimed at halting
the use of cluster bombs, which scatter
hundreds of ''bomblets'' and are
responsible for the deaths of thousands of
civilians worldwide, most recently in Iraq.
The 57 nations that stockpile these
munitions reject a moratorium.
The
Jamestown Foundation
Leave None to
Tell the Story:
Genocide in Rwanda
Liberation War Museum Online: Bangladesh
Patterns of Global
Terrorism | 2000 Report
Revelations from the Russian Archives
WWW Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre
(1937-1938)
"There is no consensus on what a slave was or on how the institution of slavery should be defined. Nevertheless, there is general agreement among historians, anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and others who study slavery that most of the following characteristics should be present in order to term a person a slave. The slave was a species of property; thus, he belonged to someone else. In some societies slaves were considered movable property, in others immovable property, like real estate. They were objects of the law, not its subjects. Thus, like an ox or an ax, the slave was not ordinarily held responsible for what he did. He was not personally liable for torts or contracts. The slave usually had few rights and always fewer than his owner, but there were not many societies in which he had absolutely none. As there are limits in most societies on the extent to which animals may be abused, so there were limits in most societies on how much a slave could be abused. The slave was removed from lines of natal descent. Legally and often socially he had no kin. No relatives could stand up for his rights or get vengeance for him. As an "outsider," "marginal individual," or "socially dead person" in the society where he was enslaved, his rights to participate in political decision making and other social activities were fewer than those enjoyed by his owner. The product of a slave's labour could be claimed by someone else, who also frequently had the right to control his physical reproduction". From: "Slavery." Britannica CD 98® Multimedia Edition © 1994-1997. Emphasis, Bold and Underline are my own.
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