Garry Davis

“The Life of Garry Davis - World Citizen #1 (May 13, 2021) Director & President of President of Future WAVE, Inc. Arthur Kanegis on the documentary film”

“The World is my Country documentary film about Garry Davis, "World Citizen No. 1”

“WorldService.org World Citizen Government, by the World Service Authority, created by Davis”

“FutureWAVE, Inc. "Working for Alternatives to Violence through Entertainment"”

“Social movement”

“It's... crucial that humanity come together, rise above these borders that divide us, and... have the People of the world have a voice at the global level, to... express the will of humanity globally... by bringing together the highest and best wisdom of all of us on the planet, not a race to the bottom like this current broken system. A new system that we invent with the incredible genius of humanity to... amalgamate... all of our best thoughts about how we can save the planet... how we can save our children.”

“The very next day, (he did that on December 9, 1948) December 10 the Soviets dropped their objection to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights... they abstained and let that incredible document get passed unanimously, that declares every citizen on this planet has rights and freedoms.”

“Delegates actually applaud him, but he's hauled away. ...Albert Einstein, Jean-Paul Sartre... Albert Camus rally to his defense and 20,000 Parisians join him in demanding the U.N. represent the rights of humanity...”

“He went to Paris where the United Nations was meeting in 1948, before they had built the building in New York... [H]e leaps up in the middle of the entire U.N. General Assembly... to say that nations you represent divide us and lead us to the brink of total war. ...[H]e calls on the delegates to elect a government of, by and for the People of this planet.”

“World War II comes along and he finds himself... bombing the city of Brandenburg, and his own brother has been killed... [H]e says, "Why am I killing..? Why wasn't I arrested for killing..? Whey weren't they?" and he goes on a mission to figure out how he can save our world.”

“It's about a song and dance man on a mission to unite the world, to save this little ball... in space.”

“In 1953, Mr. Davis founded the World Government of World Citizens. He later created the {{w|World Service Authority}}... that continues today to issue passports and other documents. To date, 950,000 people are registered as world citizens... In 1991... the State Department... determined [he] was not legally empowered to print such documents. Critics charged that Mr. Davis was hawking "false hope" to people who had few other places to turn for help.”

“His most-noted supporters included physicist Albert Einstein, the existentialist philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre, and author and philosopher Albert Camus.”

“His radical proposal... was a world with no borders... in which all people belonged to the same global citizenry. ...[A] place of peace ...no need for war.”

“Albert Camus... and other French intellectuals formed "The Association for the International Registry of World Citizens and People's Assembly."”

“Three thousand Parisians... jammed a Paris music hall to hear him. Two thousand more could not get seats. ...15,000 turned out for a Davis rally in a Paris sports arena. Letters poured in at a rate of 400 a day.”

“Davis established himself as an apostle of peace last spring when he renounced his U.S. citizenship, proclaimed himself a "citizen of the world" and called upon the U.N. to make way for a world state forthwith.”

“I have 58 years of material here and he's only given me twenty minutes on this stand. ...I'll talk to you later.”

“[W]e now have a world government which... has an office in Washington D.C. and we have an office in Shanghai... We have an agency called the World Service Authority which issues these passports.”

“I have traveled with this document to India. I've traveled back from India... with... number 000001.”