We registered 750,000 people practically overnight. We set up the International Registry of World Citizens. We started issuing documents based upon w… - Garry Davis

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We registered 750,000 people practically overnight. We set up the International Registry of World Citizens. We started issuing documents based upon world citizenship. ...This passport is one of the most important key documents in the world because it represents one world, no frontiers, freedom of travel and humanity.

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About Garry Davis

Sol Gareth "Garry" Davis (27 July 1921 – 24 July 2013) was an international peace activist best known for renouncing his American citizenship and interrupting the United Nations in 1948 to advocate for world government as a way to end nationalistic wars. His actions gained international attention, including support from intellectuals such as Albert Camus and Albert Einstein, but ridicule from Eleanor Roosevelt. Davis, an advocate for the , founded the non-profit in 1953 to educate and promote World government. The World Service Authority issues "world government documents", such as the , a fantasy travel document based on his interpretation of Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted by the ,and on the concept of world citizenship. Davis served as an American bomber pilot in World War II and worked as a Broadway stage actor.

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Henry Noel... had renounced his United States citizenship in July 1947 and had begun working... in... Germany, rebuilding a bombed-out church. ...It was an affirmation of the fundamental sovereignty of the individual upon which all government rests. Henry Noel... was now on humanity's side.

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