We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government against the Negro People
Book Details
Author(s)Civil Rights Congress
PublisherCivil Rights Congress
ISBN / ASINB000TLO9K2
ISBN-13978B000TLO9K3
Sales Rank5,334,573
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
From the back cover: "'The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.
"'The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by petty people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched.
"'We will give you undeniable proofs of incredible events. The catalogue of crimes will omit nothing that could be conceived by a pathological pride, cruelty, and lust for power.
"'We charge guilt on planned and intended conduct that involves moral as well as legal wrong. ... It is not because they yielded to the normal frailties of human beings that we accuse them. It is their abnormal and inhuman conduct which brings them to this bar.'"
--from the opening address for the United States by Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson at the Nuremberg Trial of the Nazi war criminals accused of genocide, November 21, 1945
Contents:
Introduction
New Acts of Genocide
Part I: The Opening Statement
Part II: The Law and the Indictment
Part III: The Evidence
Part IV: Summary and Prayer
Part V: Appendix
From the Introduction: "Out of the inhuman black ghettos of American cities, out of the cotton plantations of the South, comes this record of mass slayings on the basis of race, of lives deliberately warped and distorted by the willful creation of conditions making for premature death, poverty and disease. It is a record that calls aloud for condemnation, for an end to these terrible injustices that constitute a daily and ever-increasing violation of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
"'The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by petty people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched.
"'We will give you undeniable proofs of incredible events. The catalogue of crimes will omit nothing that could be conceived by a pathological pride, cruelty, and lust for power.
"'We charge guilt on planned and intended conduct that involves moral as well as legal wrong. ... It is not because they yielded to the normal frailties of human beings that we accuse them. It is their abnormal and inhuman conduct which brings them to this bar.'"
--from the opening address for the United States by Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson at the Nuremberg Trial of the Nazi war criminals accused of genocide, November 21, 1945
Contents:
Introduction
New Acts of Genocide
Part I: The Opening Statement
Part II: The Law and the Indictment
Part III: The Evidence
Part IV: Summary and Prayer
Part V: Appendix
From the Introduction: "Out of the inhuman black ghettos of American cities, out of the cotton plantations of the South, comes this record of mass slayings on the basis of race, of lives deliberately warped and distorted by the willful creation of conditions making for premature death, poverty and disease. It is a record that calls aloud for condemnation, for an end to these terrible injustices that constitute a daily and ever-increasing violation of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
