The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.
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Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.
I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy, meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience.
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.
A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.