Natan Sharansky Quotes
Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all people.
Sharansky, Natan, and Ron Dermer. The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror. PublicAffairs, 2004.
The opening line of the North Vietnamese Declaration of Independence was a quotation of Thomas Jefferson’s in the American Declaration of Independence. What is even more interesting is that Ho Chi Minh who wrote it asked for and received help in checking his translation from an American agent of the OSS---Office of Strategic Service, precursor to the CIA. While Ho adopted much from the American Democratic concepts, he did not include free elections of multiple party candidates, freedom of speech, travel, or many other basics.
This document was Drafted by members of America’s leading faiths and signed by the Presidents, two Supreme Court Chief Justices, and nearly 200 other leading citizens.
Natan Sharansky is an Israeli politician, human rights activist, and author who, as a refusenik in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s, spent nine years in Soviet prisons. He served as Chair of the Executive of the Jewish Agency from June 2009 to August 2018. Natan Sharansky currently serves as the Chairman of the Institute of the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) (www.isgap.org).
