Tahar Ben Jelloun - I have written about the d...

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

French Poet

Born: Dec 1, 1944

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Rights, Legal, Women, Men, Enjoy, Immigrants, About, Written, Condemned, Exile, Condition, Legal Rights, Same, Land, Deprived, Who, Dispossessed, Palestinians

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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. Barack Obama

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