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36 pages, Paperback
First published October 21, 2010
Zum Autor:
Nach seiner KZ-Haft trat Hessel 1945 in den diplomatischen Dienst des französischen Außenministeriums ein. Seiner diplomatische Laufbahn begann als Büroleiter des UN-Vize-Generalsekretärs Henri Laugier, der zu jener Zeit mit dem Entwurf der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte der UN befasst war. Es folgten weitere Stationen bei den Vereinten Nationen, aber auch auf anderen Posten, teilweise im Ausland und endet 1982. Im Anschluss wurde er in den Haute Autorité de la communication audiovisuelle (Regulierungsbehörde für Funk und Fernsehen) und danach in eine Arbeitsgruppe zur Ausländerintegration berufen. Auch im Ruhestand setzte er sich weiterhin für Frieden und Menschenrechte ein.
A comprehensive Social Security plan, to guarantee all citizens a means of livelihood in every case where they are unable to get it by working.He was/is committed to
establishing a true economic and social democracy, which entails removing large scale economic and financial feudalism from the management of the economy.
The motivation that underlay the Resistance was outrage....We say to you: Take over, keep going, get angry!....I want you, each and every one of you, to have a reason to be outraged. This is precious. When something outrages you, as Nazism did me, that is when you become a militant, strong and engaged.To be a man is to be outraged at some fundamental right denied to a human being. Indifference is a worse attitude for that reveals that one is not a man.
...we have to understand violence as a regrettable consequence of an unacceptable situation. Terrorism itself, we might say, is a form of exasperation. And exasperation here is a negative term. What is needed is not exasperation, but hope. Exasperation is the denial of hope. It is understandable, I would almost say it is natural. None the less, it is not acceptable, because it does not allow people to achieve the results that hope can.