John Conyers - It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protec...

John Conyers Zitate

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.

John Conyers

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Es ist mir beunruhigend, dass wir in einer Zeit leben, in der wir als Amerikaner immer noch für den Schutz unserer Bürgerrechte kämpfen müssen, in der ein Hassverbrechen, das an jemandem begangen wird, der auf seiner sexuellen Orientierung beruht, unbestraft bleiben kann und dass Diskriminierung in unsere eingetragen wird Gesetze.

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