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Sol Gareth "Garry" Davis was an international peace activist best known for renouncing his American citizenship and interrupting the United Nations in 1948 to advocate for world government as a way to end nationalistic wars.

His actions gained international attention, including support from intellectuals such as Albert Camus and Albert Einstein, but ridicule from Eleanor Roosevelt.

Davis, a World Federalist, founded the non-profit World Service Authority in 1953 to educate and promote World government. The World Service Authority issues "world government documents", such as the World Passport, a fantasy travel document based on his interpretation of Article 13, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and on the concept of world citizenship. Previously, Davis had worked as a Broadway stage actor and understudy for Danny Kaye. He served as an American bomber pilot in World War II. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. July 1921 – 24. July 2013
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Famous Garry Davis Quotes

“Here we are, in one little world, one planet... Everybody agrees that world government is the logical solution...”

Garry Davis

As quoted in Garry Davis Cult, Life (Jan 24, 1949)

“Yesterday's science fiction is today's prosaic, everyday reality.”

Garry Davis

Letters to World Citizens (2004)

“I would secede from the old and declare the new.”

Garry Davis

My Country is the World (1984)

“If you have any restrictions artificially imposed on your own free intelligence, I want this book to be the rubber stamp which reads: The above restriction is hereby removed. ...It is an act of faith.”

Garry Davis

My Country is the World (1984)

“Peace doesn't come through hope, prayer or time; we have to reach out and grasp what is within reach.”

Garry Davis

As quoted in Garry Davis Cult, Life (Jan 24, 1949)

“Why am I killing people in their homes... schools and factories..? Why wasn't I arrested for killing people? Whey weren't they?”

Garry Davis

Upon bombing the city of Brandenburg (1945), as quoted by Arthur Kanegis, The Life of Garry Davis - World Citizen #1 (May 13, 2021) discussing the documentary film, The World is My Country that he directed.

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