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" We the peoples of the United Nations determined: to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, And for these ends: to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, Have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims: Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations.
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We and peoples
We have already seen how its embedment in Proto-Indo-European society lies not just in its lexical reconstruction but also in the proliferation of personal names which contain ' horse ' as an element among the various Indo-European peoples.
We really don ’ t think laws and “ imaginary property ” have any place in peoples ’ love or cultural relations.
We, adhering faithfully to the tradition received from the beginning of the Christian faith, to the glory of God, our Saviour, the elevation of the Catholic religion and the salvation of Christian peoples, with the approbation of the sacred Council, teach and explain that the dogma has been divinely revealed: that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when carrying out the duty of the pastor and teacher of all Christians by his supreme apostolic authority he defines a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the universal Church, through the divine assistance promised him in blessed Peter, operates with that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer wished that His church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals ; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable.
Fátima, Portugal | Fátima Statue of Pope Pius XII, who consecrated Russia and the World: « Just as a few years ago We consecrated the entire human race to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( Roman Catholic ) | Virgin Mary, Mother of God, so today We consecrate and in a most special manner We entrust all the peoples of Russia to this Immaculate Heart ...»
We do not care to dominate alien peoples, white or colored ; we do not aspire to be the Romans of tomorrow or the " masters of the world.
We want to be a bridge between white rock and black soul ", adding that, " I want Culture Club to represent all peoples and minorities ".
We want peace for ourselves and for all peoples of the planet.
Just as a few years ago We consecrated the entire human race to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, so today We consecrate and in a most special manner We entrust all the peoples of Russia to this Immaculate Heart ...
: Just as a few years ago We consecrated the entire human race to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, so today We consecrate and in a most special manner We entrust all the peoples of Russia to this Immaculate Heart ...
We agree with Joseph De Maistre that savage peoples are not primitive peoples, in the sense of original peoples, but rather the degenerating remains of more ancient races that have disappeared.
We do know that all primitive societies had and used string — for hunting, fishing, and weaving — and that string figures have been collected from native peoples all over the world.
We are one country with many peoples, not simply a society of Pākehā and Māori where the minority has a birthright to the upper hand, as the Labour Government seems to believe ".[...
" We are concerned that Canberra's policies are aimed at excluding and containing the peoples of the region, instead of working collectively to address fundamental problems of social instability that can only be solved through dialogue, rather than the use of development aid, and political force as leverage, to dictate Australia's involvement "
We support the right of aboriginal peoples, blacks and other oppressed groups to organize for their rights and in their own defence.
We have indeed said that in the east, to the coasts of the ocean, a number of races in such needy conditions exist ; but this also applies to the races of peoples which are called the large and small Ghaucen, which we have seen in the north.
We and United
We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.
We have concluded that petitioner's claims are controlled by the rationale of Gonzales v. United States, 348 U.S. 407 ( 1955 ), and United States v. Nugent, 346 U.S. 1 ( 1953 ), and therefore affirm the judgment.
We found in Gonzales v. United States, supra, that this was the controlling reason why copies of the recommendation should be furnished a registrant.
The President of the United States has said: `` We will never negotiate out of fear, and we will never fear to negotiate ''.
* 1864 – The U. S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
However, in 1962 the London Beth Din and the Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie, who formed the leadership of the United Synagogue, the UK's Orthodox establishment, refused to allow his appointment on grounds of heresy because in his 1957 book We Have Reason to Believe, Jacobs had rejected the conception of a literal, verbal revelation of the Torah.
Frank Capra's Why We Fight ( 1942 – 1944 ) series was a newsreel series in the United States, commissioned by the government to convince the U. S. public that it was time to go to war.
* We the People: American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States.
United We Conquer ( 1941 – 1943 )
“ We will continue to accept and investigate credible reports of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers, and to promote protection and restoration of the old growth conditions upon which this magnificent species depended across the entire southeastern United States .”
After the signing of the Louisiana Purchase agreement in 1803, Livingston made this famous statement, " We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives ... From this day the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank.
" If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us ... We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.
A study reported in The American Journal of Human Genetics stated, " We analyzed the European genetic contribution to 10 populations of African descent in the United States ( Maywood, Illinois ; Detroit ; New York ; Philadelphia ; Pittsburgh ; Baltimore ; Charleston, South Carolina ; New Orleans ; and Houston ) ... mtDNA haplogroups analysis shows no evidence of a significant maternal Amerindian contribution to any of the 10 populations.
" proposed in January 2007 that the United States rededicate itself to the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons, concluding: " We endorse setting the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons and working energetically on the actions required to achieve that goal.
* United We Stand: What More Can I Give, another 9 / 11 benefit concert, is held at RFK Stadium in Washington D. C., featuring performances by Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, James Brown, Al Green, Carole King, America, Huey Lewis, Backstreet Boys, Pink, ' N Sync, Goo Goo Dolls, and others.
The new album, entitled We Are the Night, was released on 2 July 2007 in the United Kingdom and 17 July 2007 in the United States.
Why We Fight is a series of seven documentary films commissioned by the United States government during World War II whose purpose was to show American soldiers the reason for U. S. involvement in the war.
* April 22 – The U. S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 which mandates that the inscription " In God We Trust " be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
It was therefore " disgraceful " for Britain to belong to such a body that engaged in " pure spite for spite's sake against the United Kingdom ": " We were, and are, the victims of our own insincerity.
The album contained many songs tailor-made for live performance, including two of rock's most recognisable anthems, " We Will Rock You " and the rock ballad " We Are the Champions ", both of which became enduring international sports anthems, and the latter reached number four in the United States.
In July, while Perot was pondering whether to run for office, his supporters established a campaign organization United We Stand America.
* United We Stand, H. Ross Perot ; text of the book published by Perot in 1992 to mark the launch of his Presidential campaign, complete with charts.
We and Nations
As early as 1776, Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth Of Nations: `` We have no acts of Parliament against combining to lower the price of work ; ;
U. S. President Harry S. Truman commented: " We must make the United Nations continue to work, and to be a going concern, to see that difficulties between nations may be settled just as we settle difficulties between States here in the United States.
*" We go to the United Nations now to secure the right to live free in the remaining 22 percent of our historic homeland because we have been negotiating with the State of Israel for 20 years without coming any closer to realizing a state of our own.
An early use in mainstream media is a San Francisco Chronicle article of September 14, 2002 in which former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter says: " We may be able to generate support for an invasion among some of the Shiites and some of the Kurds, but to get to Baghdad you must penetrate the Sunni Triangle.
We reached a conclusion that we cannot rely on the Arab League states, nor on the United Nations ....
: Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said, " We think the arrest of Saddam Hussein will contribute to the strengthening of security in Iraq and to the process of political regulation in the country with the active participation of the United Nations.
We will help develop programs at the community level for First Nations youth in communities no matter how isolated or poverty stricken.
The same speech however contains remarks, less often quoted, which make it clear that Churchill did not initially see Britain as being part of this United States of Europe: We British have our own Commonwealth of Nations ... And why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent and why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings in shaping the destinies of men?
The Millennium Summit was PEEd with the report of the Secretary-General entitled ‘ We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the Twenty-First Century ’.
This led to his report titled, We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century which led to the Millennium Declaration.
" We are convinced that the resolution further strengthens the essential coordinating role of the United Nations in the international campaign against the terrorist threat ," he said.
A few years later he went to work for the right wing in a larger way ; he became vice-president of Merwin K. Hart ’ s National Economic Council ; a director of the Congress of Freedom ; a director of the U. S. ( sometimes United States ) Day Committee — whose purpose it was to diminish in importance the observation of October 23 as United Nations Day — and an adviser to Harry Everingham ’ s ' We, The People !".
We can recognise someone's right to the opinion that the United Nations is secretly controlled by alien lizards on the moon, without holding this idea in high regard.
We must remember that the United Nations was set up to prevent 1930s-style cross-frontier aggression ".
Represented by William Patterson and Paul Robeson, it attempted to file a petition entitled " We Charge Genocide " with the United Nations in 1949 that condemned the treatment of black citizens in the United States.
* The Minister for Middle East in the UK Alastair Burt said " We condemn utterly the baseless comments from Iran's Vice-President Rahimi about the Talmud and the Jewish faith, made at a United Nations drugs control event in Tehran this week.
: Bearing in mind that the United Nations Charter states: ' We, the people of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, ... to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, ... and for these ends to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours ',
In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress issued its a petition to the United Nations entitled, " We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People ".
* Civil Rights Congress, We Charge Genocide, The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People.
In 1951 he presented the document, We Charge Genocide, to the United Nations, charging the U. S. federal government with complicity in genocide for pass legislation or take action against lynching in the United States.
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