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Founder’s Summary:
Our non-partisan group is focused on a consistent support of our universal human rights in all parts of the world, with emphasis on these four areas:
– 1. ensuring religious freedom and pluralism / defying religious supremacism
– 2. supporting racial harmony / defying racial supremacism
– 3. supporting gender equality / defying misogyny
– 4. defending human liberty / defying totalitarianism
We have supporters in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, Egypt, Pakistan, and around the world. We are an all volunteer organization.
I would love to discuss R.E.A.L. further with you.
For more information or to contact us, email us at info@realcourage.org
Jeffrey Imm
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
More About Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) is a group that seeks to reach out to the public to rebuild a culture where our universal human rights are a priority, not an afterthought. We believe that our standard of living as human beings — begins with our standard of human rights for one another. In a world where compromise has become a way of life, R.E.A.L.’s mission is to focus on consistency in human rights, and to offer a consistent vision on the largest threats to human equality and liberty. R.E.A.L. promotes a culture of co-existence is dependent on our shared universal human rights around the world. R.E.A.L. believes that such consistency requires challenging those ideologies of supremacism and totalitarianism that would defy our universal human rights.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) is a non-partisan, citizen activist group with the goal to defend the inalienable human rights of equality and liberty as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the American Declaration of Independence. Our objective is defend humanity’s universal human rights as part of our love for our fellow human beings. As individuals responsible for equality and liberty, we challenge those who use institutionalized hate as justification for intolerance, violence, and murder. We believe the answer to institutionalized hate is LOVE, and we believe that ultimately, Love Wins. Our public support for our fellow human beings’ universal human rights is our commitment of love as the answer to hate.
As those who promote hate seek to create ever-increasing numbers of hate groups in America, our message to them is that America will never retreat on hate. But we don’t answer hate with hate. Instead of an upraised fist, we offer outstretched hands and hearts to those who do hate, to urge them to release the burden of hate from their hearts, and join us in defending the universal human rights and dignity of all people.
We urge all – Choose Love, Not Hate. Love Wins.
Our goals:
(1) We seek to reach out to those whose hearts are burdened by hate, and ask them to choose love, not hate, and rejoin the family of humanity.
(2) We seek to educate the public about supremacist and totalitarian ideologies and organizations that defy our universal human rights.
(3) We seek to promote public activism in challenging such supremacist and totalitarian ideologies in public gatherings, meetings, and rallies in support of equality and liberty.
(4) We seek to promote action by government leaders and international organizations in challenging such supremacist and totalitarian ideologies, as part of our responsibility to equality and liberty.
(5) As individuals responsible for equality and liberty, we challenge all supremacist and totalitarian ideologies, including, but not limited to, racial supremacism, Aryan Nazi supremacism, religious supremacism, Communist totalitarianism, and misogyny (hate against women). We defy those who believe that an ideology of institutionalized hate legitimizes violence against women, other races, and other individuals.
Religious Pluralism Versus Religious Supremacism
R.E.A.L. supports the freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, and freedom of worship for all, as guaranteed by the nations of the world in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Article 18. Article 18 states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.” We view Article 18 as a fundamental necessity to ensuring religious pluralism. We support such freedoms for all. We also recognize that exclusivity in views on religion will exist, whether such exclusivity is based a personal belief in the validity of only one religion, or it is based on the belief in the equal validity of multiple religions. Our support for religious freedom and pluralism is not a challenge to any religion, but a promotion of religious freedom.
R.E.A.L.’s support for our universal human rights and pluralism, with an emphasis on Article 18 of the UDHR, calls for such promotion of religious pluralism, but recognizes the reality of those who seek to defy our universal human rights with religious arguments. We reject religious supremacist views that promote hate and intolerance. We reject religious supremacist ideological arguments that seek to prevent the universal human rights of all people, based on such arguments. We reject religious supremacist views that seek to even prevent religious freedom, freedom of worship, and freedom of conscience for other human beings, a painful reality that we see too often in the United States and around the world.
Our definition of such views as religious “supremacism” is not about denying the personal exclusivity of any religious path to our fellow human beings, or the exercise or promotion of their religion as part of their freedoms. Our definition of religious “supremacism” is drawn from the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who fought for human rights for black Americans by defining and challenging an ideology of a “white supremacy,” and seeking to promote tolerance, to defend the equal rights of black Americans against the efforts of some white Americans that sought to deny such freedoms. Dr. King did not demonize ALL white Americans, but challenged those who sought to deny human rights to black Americans to change. Dr. King challenged white supremacism, as part of his struggle for black Americans’ human rights.
In the same way, R.E.A.L. promotes religious pluralism, but in doing so, also challenges those ideologies, groups, and activists who seek to promote a religious “supremacist” view that seeks to consciously deny others basic human rights, including the freedom of religion, freedom of worship, and freedom of conscience necessary for religious pluralism.
In defense of such religious pluralism, we challenge extreme groups that seek to use arguments that they call “Christian,” “Islamic,” or another religious identification to deny others freedom of religion, worship, and conscience, to call for hate, to call for violence, to oppress women and minorities, to seek the destruction of our universal human rights of equality and liberty. We reject anti-human rights views as “Christian supremacism” or “Islamic supremacism,” but we do not attack or reject Christianity or Islam as a religion. Many of our supporters are devout members of religious faiths and we respect those faiths. Our human rights goals are the consistent defense of our universal human rights. We recognize that religious supremacist views are difficult and complex discussions. But we also know from history that “white supremacist” views were once something Americans were unwilling to define, discuss, or challenge. We believe that to be honest in our commitment to pluralism, it is necessary to recognize the existence of religious supremacist views that not only seek to undermine pluralism, but also seek to undermine religious freedom and freedom of conscience itself.
Our goal is to protect such religious freedoms for all faiths, based on pluralist tolerance for our differences, and based on an uncompromising defense of our Universal Human Rights.
Supporters of R.E.A.L. and Events
Thank you for your interest in being responsible for equality and liberty. Please see our list of planned events designed to publicly demonstrate our commitment to democracy, equality, and liberty.
Members of R.E.A.L. have a community-based focus in promoting equality and liberty and defying supremacism to educate, inform, and involve the public in a wide range of events, including public rallies, educational forums, petition drives, and other activities.
While we are HQ’d in the Washington DC area, we are looking for members to promote equality and liberty, and defy supremacism globally!