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Rene Cassin

"We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence."

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"We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence."

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Donna Grant

"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."

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Donna Grant

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

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Donna Grant

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

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Donna Grant

"There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.""

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Donna Grant

"Women hear rhythm differently than men."

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Donna Grant

"The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men."

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Donna Grant

"What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear."

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Donna Grant

"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

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Donna Grant

"A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything."

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Donna Grant

"Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability."

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Rene Cassin
"As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general."

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Rene Cassin
"We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence."

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Rene Cassin
"As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights."

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Rene Cassin
"Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance."

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Rene Cassin
"In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948."

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Rene Cassin
"I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement."

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Rene Cassin
"And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family."

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Rene Cassin
"When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable."

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Rene Cassin
"The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights."

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Rene Cassin
"The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up."

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