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Historians will record that today's rally is yet one more example of the rejuvenation of the historic black-Jewish alliance that in the 1960s brought about the greatest political and social change in the history of our nation. Both African Americans and Jews recognize that a people who fight for their own rights are only as honorable as when they fight for the rights of all people. The spirit of today's rally, the spirit of interracial, interethnic and interfaith cooperation provides a model for our actions against the genocide in Darfur. Just sixty years ago, when American tanks rolled into European concentration camps to liberate survivors of the Holocaust, the world vowed 'Never Again'. Never again would civilized society ignore the cries of human suffering. Never again would we turn a blind eye to atrocities against humanity. But it is happening again, just as it happened again in the Balkans, Cambodia and Rwanda. The perpetrators of this genocide thrive not on hate but on indifference. The silence of the world is as fateful to Darfuris as the guns of the Janjaweed. We have learned from our history that casual
Jews become Jewish casualties. So we must speak out in the face of the
unspeakable horror and brutality or else in the words of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., "we will have to repent in this generation not merely
for the hateful words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling
silence of the good people."
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