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about Human Rights Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. Jimmy Carter When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights. G K Chesterton The American people still believe in peace, human rights and justice; they are still a generous, fair-minded, open-minded people. Theodore Sorensen I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights. Angelina Grimke America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense...human rights invented America. Jimmy Carter 'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. Dag Hammarskjold It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so. Kofi Annan It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended. Boutros Boutros-Ghali The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are...the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community. Boutros Boutros-Ghali Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. Abraham Lincoln | |