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I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men who ...
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing ...
... liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.
Now you're not gonna have a country that can make these kinds of rules work, if you haven't got men that have learned to tell huma ...
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America.
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle fo ...
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you ...
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was ...
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