Political Quotes

On the recordNovember 15, 2011
How often do we need to be reminded that it is universal, sadly, that when political systems allow unbridled assaults on a group, a subgroup within its population, Holocausts follow?
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Gary Ackerman
New York

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Emphasizing the universal risk of political oppression leading to atrocities.

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