Paris, his famous services to America giving him a welcome by those who knew the benefit arising from the establishment of human rights.
The Jacobin faction dealt simply with politics through the abstract notions of Rousseau: but of what use are "human rights" if we have to begin de novo to put into operation?
The Church, in cruel mockery of human rights, stepped between her judgment and her affections.
It is not a question of woman's rights, it is a question of human rights, of the success or failure of these institutions, and the more highly cultured a woman is the more deeply she feels this humiliation.
It has become, indeed, one of the commonplaces of political ethics; and, however strange the conjunction, it is often found in the very works which are loudest in proclaiming the universal equality of human rights.
They are all of them encroachments on human rights, from the freest democracy to the most absolute despotism.
This placed the parties in instant antagonism, causing all the arguments on human rights, and the sinfulness of slavery, to fall without effect upon the ears of angry men.
They occur in a declaration of independence; and as the subject is the doctrine of human rights, so we suppose they mean to declare that all men are created equal with respect to natural rights.
Such was Thomas Jefferson, the great founder of American Democracy, the advocate of the equality of human rights, irrespective of any conditions of birth, or climate, or color.
Human Rights Commission, and Afro-Americans expected that whatever action the U.
Few, if any, supposed that Governor Pierce, a governor only appointed over us less than six months, would place himself a barrier in the way of the will of the people, and opposed to the advancement of human rights.
Expediency, that great pretext for the infringement of human rights, no longer justifies us in the retention of a monopoly of political power in our own favored class of "white male citizens.
I tell them that this is a part of the great doctrine of Human Rights, and can no more be separated from emancipation than the light from the heat of the sun; the rights of the slave and of woman blend like the colors of the rainbow.
It is this: What is done for the slave and human rightsin this country must be done note, now, now.
An incident of the childhood of this zealous champion of human rights, related in a letter I have, shows how early he took his stand by the side of the weak and defenceless.
Significantly, the term “human rights” has come into general use only since the promulgation of the United Nations Charter in 1945 and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights three years later.
The shaping of such a strategy calls for the promotion of human rights to be freed from the grip of the false dichotomies that have for so long held it hostage.
At the heart of the discussion of a strategy of social and economic development, therefore, lies the issue of human rights.
Her hair was straight and light, and her face had that mingling of vermilion and white, which Americans seem to consider, not only the nonpareil standard of beauty, but the immaculate test of human rights.
Considerations of general philanthropy, of human rights, and of the sinfulness of slavery, were scarcely so much as thought of.
Human Rights is a monthly sheet of smaller size, and is edited by one of the secretaries.
The new views of man's importance and of human rights, which work out revolutions in Europe, only make our citizens cling close and closer to the institutions of their own country.
But there was reserved for the present year the great assertion of human rights.
Perhaps nothing has done more to impair the sense of the reality and sacredness of human rights, and to sanction oppression, than loose ideas as to the change made in man's natural rights by his entrance into civil society.
Such are a few of human rights; and if so, what a grievous wrong is slavery!
The sense of duty is the fountain of human rights.
Having shown the foundation of human rights in human nature, it may be asked what they are.
Thus interpreted, they become at once a support of Human Rights and a balance-wheel to our whole political system.
The Northern settler, believing in Human Rights, is sacrificed also.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "human rights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
