We rebelled against a king who claimed the authority to transport us “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.”
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Patriot’s day
Category: Human Rights
When is humanitarian intervention justified?
“There isn’t a country in the world that shouldn’t have to stand up to criticism. Jews would just like to know that everybody else is being held to the same standards.”
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Feminism in Iraq.
“We used to talk about equality. Now it’s just this desperate push for improvement.”
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Civil rights movements.
Winning “powerful new rights not in the streets but through the work of bureaucrats, lawyers, and judges.”
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MLK’s strategist.
Bayard Rustin’s homosexuality finds a sympathetic hearing, but his socialism does not.
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Catholic democracy.
Believe it or not, there are also liberal “natural law” traditions.
When it comes to Africa, both ends of the political spectrum prefer to look the other way.
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Iran.
“Several hundred dissident intellectuals, including several clerics, issued a statement supporting the right of Iranians to criticize their government.”
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Rwanda reloaded.
The horrible story is playing out again in the Congo.