Broken Chains International

Broken chains is a Human rights organization which provides various areas of help, such as  providing education sources to defeat major areas of discrimination.We study and address matters which are occurring around the world today, our aim is to inspire and unite others regardless of religion, sexuality, race or gender. Broken Chains fights for the needs of human equality, we also respond to those who are victims of conflicts and natural disasters. We provide the basic needs and support to those who have been victims of these causes.

For more information visit: http://www.broken-chains.org/

Crawley Campaign Against Racism

                     The Crawley campaign against racism aims:

• To combat racism in all its forms
• To create contacts between every group in the community thus furthering racial harmony
• To inform people of the dangers of racist/fascist organisations, particularly at election time 

for more information please visit http://crawley-ccar.blogspot.com/

YOUR rights!!!

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 1.

• All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

  Article 2.

• Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

I have a Dream Speech

Some inspiring thoughts...

Harry A. Blackmun

“In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.”

   

Martin Luther King

“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”

Malcom X

“I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.”

William Blake

THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
by: William Blake (1757-1827)

Y mother bore me in the southern wild,

And I am black, but O, my soul is white!

White as an angel is the English child,

But I am black, as if bereaved of light.

 

My mother taught me underneath a tree,

And, sitting down before the heat of day,

She took me on her lap and kissèd me,

And, pointing to the East, began to say:

 

'Look at the rising sun: there God does live,

And gives His light, and gives His heat away,

And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive

Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.

 

'And we are put on earth a little space,

That we may learn to bear the beams of love;

And these black bodies and this sunburnt face

Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove.

 

'For when our souls have learn'd the heat to bear,

The cloud will vanish, we shall hear His voice,

Saying, "Come out from the grove, my love and care,

And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice."'

 

Thus did my mother say, and kissèd me,

And thus I say to little English boy.

When I from black and he from white cloud free,

And round the tent of God like lambs we joy,

 

I'll shade him from the heat till he can bear

To lean in joy upon our Father's knee;

And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair,

And be like him, and he will then love me.

Have you read this?

Noughts and Crosses

Sephy and Callum have been best friends since childhood, and now they are older and they realise they want more from each other. But the harsh realities of lives lived in a segregated society are beginning to take their toll: Callum is a nought--a second-class citizen in a world dominated by the Crosses--and Sephy is a Cross, and the daughter of one of the most powerful men in the country. The barriers they would have to cross to be together at first seem little more than minor obstacles to the two idealistic teenagers, but soon those barriers threaten not only their friendship but their lives.

WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE BOOK?