Human Rights1
Human rights are universal, indivisible, and interdependent. Human rights are what make us human. When we speak of the right to life, or development, or to dissent and diversity, we are speaking of tolerance. Tolerance will ensure all freedoms. Without it, we can be certain of none. The raging ethnic cleansing in Kosho is an example of intolerance. The Serbian's will not tolerate the Albanians at any cost. They are forcing them from their homes, turning the streets into killing fields. This civil war seems unstoppable because of the intolerance of one race against another. No respect for individual rights, basic human rights. Another example is right in our own back yard. I am speaking of hate crimes, which plague our society. They are no different today than centuries ago when slavery was allowed. One race against another. One religion against another, it is all the same. Hate is the opposite of tolerance. We can only live together through an expression of tolerance of the differences each of us brings into this world. We should embrace the differences and share the differences. For this is how we learn, through each others differences. Tolerance in all cultures is the basis of peace and progress.
This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. I would like to leave you with this story to ponder. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up. Today, we call these ideals human rights. Human rights are universal, indivisible, and interdependent. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Protection of human rights if essential for any organized society. Human rights are the expression of those traditions of tolerance in all religious and cultures that are the basis of peace and progress. Tolerance- - promoted, protected and enshrined- - will ensure all freedoms. We must become watchdogs of our government to insure that human rights will be respected and protected, for without human rights there is no organized government. The responsibility to respect and preserve the rights of all. I would like to leave you with this story to ponder. Our country was founded on the basic idea that all man and women are created equal with liberty and justice for all. The struggle for universal human rights has always and everywhere been the struggle against all forms of tyranny and injustice- -against slavery, against colonialism, against apartheid.
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