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"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America."
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"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be doled out by benevolent well-wishers, but as Casement said at his trial, as those rights to which all human beings are entitled from birth. It is this spirit which underlies organizations like Amnesty International, with its belief that putting someone in prison solely for his or her opinion is a crime, whether it happens in China or Turkey or Argentina and Medecins Sans Frontieres, with its belief that a sick child is entitled to medical care, whether in Rwanda or Honduras or the South Bronx."
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"Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group - and their own."
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"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America."
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"The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right."
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"The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view."
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"I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully."
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"You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other."
God
"We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war."
Peace
"We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
Peace
"Testing oneself is best when done alone."
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"Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease."
Aggression
"Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood."
Soul
"You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other."
God
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
Government
"For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants."
Happiness
"People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head."
People
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