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Ruth Messinger
Ruth Messinger

Ruth Messinger, born on November 6, 1940, is an American political leader. She served as a councilmember for Manhattan's District 3 in New York City and had a significant impact on American foreign policy. more

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“Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.”