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Words like
''freedom,'' ''justice,'' ''democracy'' are not common
concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not
born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above
all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other
people that these words imply.
-- James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author
America did
not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human
rights invented America.
-- Jimmy Carter
1924-, American Statesman,
39th President
The demand for
equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair;
but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love
and be loved.
-- Emma Goldman
1869-1940, American Anarchist
Close by the
Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights
of the Spirit.
-- Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
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Most people,
no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own
mental reservations about the proper application of the word
''human.''
-- Suzanne Lafollette
1893-1983, American Feminist,
Writer
In the old
times men carried out their rights for themselves as they
lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social
manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
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