by Editor | Jul 4, 2017 | Human Rights and Freedoms, One Family Under God
“America is to be a place where people of all races and backgrounds can discover the deeper basis of human value; that ‘under God’ all have been endowed, equally, with the same essential rights. America is meant to be a living demonstration that all...
by Main | Sep 20, 2013 | 2013, Human Rights and Freedoms
September 21 is International Day of Peace. Citizens of the world are encouraged to observe a moment of silence at noon to pray for peace. The International Day of Peace was established as a day of cease-fire and non-violence in 2001 with a unanimous vote at the...
by Main | Aug 21, 2013 | 2013, Americas, Global Peace Foundation, Human Rights and Freedoms, Local Conferences
In 2012, Dr. Hyun Jin Moon addressed religious leaders at the first Coalition for American Renewal Symposium. “I firmly believe that God has blessed America not for itself but for the sake of the world. As a “shining city upon a hill”, America is to give hope to all...
by Main | Apr 25, 2013 | 2013, Europe, Human Rights and Freedoms
People who were old enough will recall powerful images of November 9, 1989, the collapse of the Berlin Wall. East and West Germans scaling the wall to embrace on ramparts that used to be laced with barbed wire. The concrete wall being torn down by any and all means:...
by Main | Feb 28, 2013 | 2013, Americas, Human Rights and Freedoms
The opening scene of Spielberg’s 2012 film Lincoln, appropriately opens with a recitation of the Gettysburg Address. Most Americans are asked to read the Gettysburg Address sometime during their school career. Rhetoricians have studied and marveled at why his...
by Main | Feb 28, 2013 | 2013, Americas, Human Rights and Freedoms, Video
“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.” Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Congress 1862 January 21, 2013,...
