One might fancy him, passionate with theories of human equality and
human rights, discussing, arguing, fighting behind barricades in Paris, flying before the Austrian cavalry in Milan, imprisoned here, exiled from there, hoping on and upborne ever with the word which seemed so magical, the word Liberty; till at last, broken with disease and starvation, old, without means to keep body and soul together but such lessons as he could pick up from poor students, he found himself in that little neat town under the heel of a personal tyranny greater than any in Europe.
.and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those
human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.
The pack was turning on Helen, to deny her
human rights, and it seemed to Margaret that all Schlegels were threatened with her.
What I got from Sheridan was a bold denunciation of slav- ery, and a powerful vindication of
human rights. The reading of these documents enabled me to utter my thoughts, and to meet the arguments brought forward to sustain slavery; but while they relieved me of one difficulty, they brought on an- other even more painful than the one of which I was relieved.
"I didn't give it for one,--nay, I'll say, besides, that ours is the more bold and palpable infringement of
human rights; actually buying a man up, like a horse,--looking at his teeth, cracking his joints, and trying his paces and then paying down for him,--having speculators, breeders, traders, and brokers in human bodies and souls,--sets the thing before the eyes of the civilized world in a more tangible form, though the thing done be, after all, in its nature, the same; that is, appropriating one set of human beings to the use and improvement of another without any regard to their own."
If my esteemed neighbor, the State's ambassador, who will devote his days to the settlement of the question of
human rights in the Council Chamber, instead of being threatened with the prisons of Carolina, were to sit down the prisoner of Massachusetts, that State which is so anxious to foist the sin of slavery upon her sister -- though at present she can discover only an act of inhospitality to be the ground of a quarrel with her -- the Legislature would not wholly waive the subject the following winter.
If my esteemed neighbor, the State's ambassador, who will devote his days to the settlement of the question of
human rights in the Council Chamber, instead of being threatened with the prisons of Carolina, were to sit down the prisoner of Massachusetts, that State which is so anxious to foist the sin of slavery upon her sister--though at present she can discover only an act of inhospitality to be the ground of a quarrel with her--the Legislature would not wholly waive the subject of the following winter.
There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for
human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
The policy envisions a country where everyone has the right to promote and to strive for the protection and realisation of
human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national level.
The essence behind this policy is Article 1, UN Declaration on
Human Rights Defenders according to which 'Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to promote and to strive for the protection and realization of
human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels'.
Our Japanese counterparts will share their experiences on these topics and we will exchange views on how to improve the
human rights situation,' Malin said.
9199, or the proposed '
Human Rights Defenders Protection Law,' which would guarantee the rights and freedoms of people working to advance the cause of
human rights.