"The Jewish People, which has suffered boycotts and persecution, should be a light unto other nations".
Jewishness explained everything: his love of texts, his instinctive empathy with themes of blame and persecution, his sense of exile.
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Of course, the Nazi harassment and persecution of its German Jewish population is a cause of enormous anguish to me as it is to every Jew.
The body of laws and international agreements that have been carefully built up (and fought for) over centuries to protect all people from arbitrary authority and persecution.
For it is evil things that we shall be fighting against - brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution - and against them I am certain that right will prevail.
Farmers and scholars, statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.
This work is challenging, but with the collaboration of several federal agencies, including State, DHS, and HHS and the many nongovernmental partner organizations, the United States remains true to its commitment to protect vulnerable people fleeing conflict and persecution.
"We are a place that celebrates diversity, a place where people from around the world come to live free of prejudice and persecution, and hate crimes like these are an offense against all we stand for as a city, " the mayor said.
He eagerly tells us that during the 1930s and 1940s European Jews fled persecution and found not only safe haven in Zambia (then called Northern Rhodesia) but prosperity.
We honor the dignity, courage, and determination of these men, women and children who have fled persecution and violence in their homelands and the commitment and generosity of the countries and organizations that provide them protection and assistance during this difficult time.
Factors in their decline include the loss of moorland nesting habitat and feeding range, eggs and young being eaten by foxes, crows and other predators, and illegal persecution.
Despite her prickly nature and sense of persecution Edith Sitwell was always quick to recognise and praise a talented new writer.
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Recognizing the very distressing consequences that that caused, that could subject that person to persecution and criminal prosecution.
Yes, Britain will always be open to the best and brightest from around the world and those fleeing persecution.
But the price he has to pay for this new freedom, which gives rise to persecution and jealousy, is solitude.
His Jewish grandfather had fled Romania in the 1920s to avoid anti-Semitic persecution and his father had become a doctor.
Headlines in Europe this month have highlighted the continent's worst, and most ill-managed social problem: the treatment of millions of Romanies who face at best discrimination and at worst persecution.
Pavel, who resembles his father, has not been back to Russia since the arrest, fearing persecution and other actions that might be taken against him to force his father to give up his court fight.
The U.S. refused to accept Jewish refugees even as Nazi persecution rose and World War II loomed.
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This delay-ridden procedure has turned asylum into a nightmare for those fleeing persecution, and an exploitable sham for those seeking a way round immigration controls.
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Thus they need to know the rulings of the Shari'a in their situation, including for some Muslims who have gained employment as lawyers or judges in non-Muslim countries, in order to preserve the rights of Muslims, and help them overcome persecution.
In some areas of Scotland, the re-establishment of the red kite continues to be jeopardised by illegal killing and each year brings further reports of the persecution of other raptors, notably golden eagles and peregrines.
"Naively, I had assumed that the freedoms afforded in the United States, and the relative absence of political persecution, would allow for a Muslim intellectual rebirth, " he writes in the introduction to And God Knows the Soldiers.
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It was in the 16th Century that Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Portugal and Spain landed in London, bringing with them a taste for fried fish.
His Y chromosome was traced back to the Middle East, possibly an indication of a Jewish ancestor among the many escaping persecution in Portugal and Spain some 500 years ago.
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Yet they must make room for the views of women whose backgrounds have little to do with the persecution of Jews and who may have suffered horrors of their own.
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