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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

26 Friday, December 19, 1980

DO YOU WANT YOUR CHILD
TO BE A MENSCH?

Black Leader Rustin Links Struggles
of Blacks and Jews for Human Rights

By BAYARD RUSTIN

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(Rustin, board chair-
man of the A. Philip Ran-
dolph Institute and
president of the Black
Americans to Support Is-
rael Committee (BASIC),
received the Anti-
Defamation League's
Joseph Prize for Human
Rights in recognition of
his lifelong battle in be-
half of blacks and all
minorities around the
world.)
Blacks and Jews are
members in good standing
of the international party of
human rights. We know
better than most others the
meaning of human rights,
for we have experienced
their denial.
Under such circum-
stances, one might conclude
that our vision of a world
made complete and of a vital
democracy extending to all
spheres of life is merely a
utopian reverie — a day-
dream from which most of
the world has already
wakened and returned to its

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which asserts that what is, to be a black in America
rather than a black in
is all that can be?
I submit that there are Uganda, a Jew in Mos-
four principles which can be cow, or a Chinese in Pek-
applied to all the world, and ing. For the democratic
that we should be unflag- principles which are an
ging in our adherence to integral part of Ameri-
them. First, we must uphold ca's tradition are the
truth and fight those who greatest legacy of all.
An equally vital principle
speak in euphemisms, those
who use political speech and by which all of us should
political writing to defend live is that of nonviolence.
the indefensible. Clarity Violence and terrorism are
must be our by-word as we enemies of freedom, de-
expose falsehood wherever stroying human dignity.
it raises its ugly head.
BAYARD RUSTIN
Suffering makes us truth-
A second principle which
drab, oppressive reality.
we must uphold is the no- ful to ourselves.
Yet such a pessimistic tion that all men are one,
view can be held only in the which goes back to Ab-
abstract. For reality is daily raham, Isaac, Jacob and the
teaching us something pro- prophets. If we uphold the
foundly different: that our principles of democracy, we
democratic vision, our must assert the idea that all
commitment to worldwide men are worthy of par-
human rights, has a rele- ticipating fully in their
vance for mankind and is its society and in the world. We
best and perhaps its only must vigorously oppose
hope.
those who would seek to
We are taught that even deny humanity to some as a
after decades of racist consequence of their race,
oppression in South Af- religion or national origin.
rica, it is possible for
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human rights advocates guide us is that of democ-
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and Ida Nudel that de- seen much suffering in
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of one's people.
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We see in Vladimir
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to live lives which are half-
realized, incomplete. We see
in them a desire to broaden
the participation of all
people in the processes of
society. We see in each of
them a commitment to the
principles which have
moved us in our work in the
U.S., under less precarious
circumstances. -
In our lifetime, we have
seen the growth of to-
talitarianism, which today
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threatens our security. It
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rael, of Africa, and of the
world; it threatens blacks
and Jews alike by forcing
them to live in unfreedom.
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menschen, the subhu-
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