
Maurice Davis
Maurice Davis was a rabbi and activist. He served on the President's Commission on Equal Opportunity, in the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration and was a director of the American Family Foundation, now known as the International Cultic Studies Association.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Providence
- Educated at
- Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion – Cincinnati
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Trending topics shown first"Brotherhood Postponed" The March from Selma, Alabama — sermon on the march with Rev Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
"Once we stopped at the camp site several things began to occur to me. The first was that I had neither eaten nor drunk anything for more than twelve hours. I had not even sat down once in those twelve…"
"We came to the bridge which had marked the terminal point of two previous attempts. On one of those attempts, King had turned his people back at this spot. On the other attempt, the state troopers had…"
"Ladies and gentlemen, every path leads somewhere. That is what a path is all about. The path of segregation leads to lynching every time. The path of antisemitism leads to Auschwitz every time. The pa…"
"It’s frightening what these Moonies can do to the family unit … I get letters from parents all over the country telling me the same story … The kids are swept along by his outfit and then taken away f…"
"It was a deeply moving, deeply religious, and totally non-sectarian service. Rabbi Heschel read from our Bible, a Protestant minister read from the New Testament, and a Catholic Priest offered a beaut…"
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1921
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Birth1993
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