Stephane Hessel Quotes
I feel that I am completely in solidarity with Jews in the world, because I know what it is to be a Jew. I've seen what it is; I am myself of Jewish origin, and therefore I can only be fully in support of the idea that the Jews, after all they've suffered, need a country where they are at home.
Hessel, Stéphane, and Gilles Vanderpooten. Get Involved! Other Press, 2012.
See {588181} for more about the Rally. Kuhn followed the Nazi Party line that claimed America was controlled by Jews. At the same meeting he referred to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as “President Franklin D. Rosenfeld using a typical Jewish name. Many Nazis believed that the President was a Jew who had changed his name.
Stéphane Frédéric Hessel was a diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, French Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citizen in 1939. He became an observer of the editing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. In 2011 he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers. In later years his activism focused on economic inequalities, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and protection for the post-World War II social vision. His short book Time for Outrage! sold 4.5 million copies worldwide. Hessel and his book were linked and cited as an inspiration for the Spanish Indignados, the Arab Spring, the American Occupy Wall Street movement and other political movements.
