Rutgers NJMS Human Rights Initiative

Looking forward to seeing everyone at our interest meeting TONIGHT in MSB B556- stop by to learn more about the NJMS asylum clinic as well as outreach, research, and service events throughout the year!

In one of his most famous speeches, “The Ballot or the Bullet,” Malcolm X eloquently emphasizes the importance of expanding the civil rights struggle to the human rights level: Now you tell me how can the plight of everybody on this Earth reach the halls of the United Nations and you have twenty-two million Afro-Americans whose churches are being bombed, whose little girls are being murdered, whose leaders are being shot down in broad daylight? Now you tell me why the leaders of this struggle have never taken their case to the U.N.?
So our next move is to take the entire civil rights struggle – problem – into the United Nations and let the world see that Uncle Sam is guilty of violating the human rights of 22 million Afro-Americans right down to the year of 1964 and still has the audacity or the nerve to stand up and represent himself as the leader of the free world?