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“You’re crazy.” But it’s a reality today. So the world is changing. And you shouldn’t – you know – be despairing because it’s never happened before. Nothing new ever happened before.

Benjamin B. Ferencz

What has happened here [aftermath of 9/11] is not war in its traditional sense. This is clearly a crime against humanity.
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Clear Humanity Law Numbers Sense War
If it’s naive to want peace instead of war, let ’em make sure they say I’m naive. Because I want peace instead of war.
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Instead Naive Peace Sure War
I don’t say they’re naive, I say they’re stupid. Stupid to an incredible degree to send young people out to kill other young people they don’t even know, who never did anybody any harm, never harmed them. That is the current system. I am naive? That’s insane.
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Any Harm Instead People Sure
People get discouraged. They should remember, from me, it takes courage not to be discouraged.
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Discouraged People Remember
Well, if it’s naive to want peace instead of war, let ’em make sure they say I’m naive. Because I want peace instead of war. If they tell me they want war instead of peace.
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Peace People Stupid War Well
There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance.
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Justice Law Meaningful
“You’re crazy.” But it’s a reality today. So the world is changing. And you shouldn’t – you know – be despairing because it’s never happened before. Nothing new ever happened before.
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Changing Crazy Despairing
Look what’s happened to the same-sex marriages. To tell somebody a man can become a woman, a woman can become a man, and a man can marry a man, they would have said,
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Man Marriage Same Sex Somebody Woman
And I also learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race.
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Destroy Effective Holocaust Mentality Ourselves Possible
I don’t think I’m an idealist. I’m a realist. And I see the progress. The progress has been remarkable. Look at the emancipation of woman in my lifetime. You’re sitting here as a female.
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Crazy Female Men Progress Reality
I prefer law to war under all circumstances.
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Circumstances Law War
War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.
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Murderer People War
Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task.
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Compassion Law Race

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