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Jimmy Carter quotesAmerica did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
Oscar Wilde quotesIn 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.
Victor Hugo quotesClose by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
James Baldwin quotesWords 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.