Cassin

American  

[ka-san] / kaˈsɛ̃ /

noun

1. René 1887–1976, French diplomat and human-rights advocate: at the United Nations 1946–68; Nobel Peace Prize 1968.

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Example Sentences

“A Woman’s Face” tracks Crawford from her 1906 birth in Texas, as Lucille LeSueur, to her youth in Oklahoma and Kansas City as “Billie” Cassin.

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The Lebanese philosopher Charles Malik and the French jurist René Cassin had little in common.

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Cassin, who had lost many relatives in the Holocaust, was a prominent Zionist.

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For Cassin, human dignity was a bulwark against another Holocaust.

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By 1947, Malik and Cassin were not the only 20th-century philosophers and theologians who, in the wake of historical catastrophes, sought to rebuild selfhood, dignity and rights on religious foundations.

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