President Barack Obama has praised a "historic" resolution passed by the Senate apologising for the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery".
On Thursday, the Senate passed a bill stating that the US Congress "acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws" that enshrined racial segregation at the state and local level in the United States well into the 1960s.
The legislation would "acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States.
Hitlerism has done these things to Germany for more than six years, and it has built up on this fundamental iniquity a superstructure of added brutality and senseless racial persecution.
"The leadership shown by Turkey in response to the brutality and violation of the fundamental rights of the Syrian people will isolate the Assad regime and send a strong message to Assad and his circle that their actions are unacceptable and will not be tolerated," said a statement issued by a White House spokesman, Tommy Vietor.
Until political prisoners suffering in jail are freed, until citizens are granted fundamental human rights and until the regime changes its policy of brutality, we will not fuel the fires of oppression.
Beyond their brutality, their ineffectiveness as an intelligence tool, and the fact that they violated fundamental American values and foreign-policy interests, the programs were also international crimes at least partly responsible for the deaths of U.S. military servicemembers.
They heard about the government's efforts to address violent extremism without trampling fundamental protections and about the frightened citizenry who seemed willing to trade those protections if it meant stamping out brutality.
"Brutality must be called brutality".
