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Human Rights is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. The album was released in 1986 via Kabell and Gramm labels. Track listing Personnel Leo Smith – trumpet, vocals, mbira Stanya – electric guitar, synthesizer Michele Navazio – acoustic guitar, bass [synthesizer] James Emery – electric guitar Thurman Barker – drums Peter Kowald – bass, tuba, percussion Guenter Sommer – drums, percussion Tadao Sawai – koto, percussion References

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“As American Baptists we declare the following rights to be basic human rights, and we will support programs and measures to assure these rights; The right to human dignity, to be respected and treated as a person, and to be protected against discrimination without regard to age, sex, race, class, marital status, income, national origin, legal status, culture or condition in society.”
— “American Baptist Resolution Concerning Abortion and Ministry in the Local Church”, (12/87), pp.4-5
“In defending the great cause of human rights, I wish to derive the assistance of all religions and of all parties.”
— William Lloyd Garrison, "To The Public", The Liberator, January 1, 1831. Quoted in Federico Lenzerini, The Culturalization of Human Rights Law, Oxford University Press, 2014. Lenzerini states Garrison was "One of the first writers to use the expression 'human rights'". Also quoted in Hugh Tulloch, The Routledge Companion to the American Civil War Era. Routledge, 2006 (p.72)
“I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognise.”
— Sarah Grimké, Letter 15 (20 October 1837). Quoted in "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" 1838, also quoted in David A. Hollinger, Charles Capper, The American Intellectual Tradition: 1630-1865. Oxford University Press, 1997, (p. 232).
“One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's self. This, in brief, is the rule of dharma. Yielding to desire and acting differently, one becomes guilty of adharma.”
— The Mahabharata XII 113.8, quoted in Rajiv Malhotra: Indra's Net. p. 182, 1st. ed.
“We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt, in Paris on December 10, 1948. The United Nations General Assembly was gathered in the recently built Palais Chaillot when the chairwoman of the UN Commission on Human Rights rose to give a speech.
“Upholding human rights should underpin all policymaking.”
— Huma Yusuf, Missing rights (4 May, 2020), Dawn

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“As American Baptists we declare the following rights to be basic human rights, and we will support programs and measures to assure these rights; The right to human dignity, to be respected and treated as a person, and to be protected against discrimination without regard to age, sex, race, class, marital status, income, national origin, legal status, culture or condition in society.”
— “American Baptist Resolution Concerning Abortion and Ministry in the Local Church”, (12/87), pp.4-5
“In defending the great cause of human rights, I wish to derive the assistance of all religions and of all parties.”
— William Lloyd Garrison, "To The Public", The Liberator, January 1, 1831. Quoted in Federico Lenzerini, The Culturalization of Human Rights Law, Oxford University Press, 2014. Lenzerini states Garrison was "One of the first writers to use the expression 'human rights'". Also quoted in Hugh Tulloch, The Routledge Companion to the American Civil War Era. Routledge, 2006 (p.72)
“I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognise.”
— Sarah Grimké, Letter 15 (20 October 1837). Quoted in "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" 1838, also quoted in David A. Hollinger, Charles Capper, The American Intellectual Tradition: 1630-1865. Oxford University Press, 1997, (p. 232).
“One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's self. This, in brief, is the rule of dharma. Yielding to desire and acting differently, one becomes guilty of adharma.”
— The Mahabharata XII 113.8, quoted in Rajiv Malhotra: Indra's Net. p. 182, 1st. ed.
“We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt, in Paris on December 10, 1948. The United Nations General Assembly was gathered in the recently built Palais Chaillot when the chairwoman of the UN Commission on Human Rights rose to give a speech.
“Upholding human rights should underpin all policymaking.”
— Huma Yusuf, Missing rights (4 May, 2020), Dawn

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