Kay Granger Quotes
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
For similar views see Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Potter Stewart and the National Union for Social Justice.
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhui
This line was quoted by President William Clinton in his Beijing University Speech in June 1998
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This was the first time that the term “human rights” was used. FDR, a personal friend of Wells, then used the term in his Four Freedoms speech and thus was the first politician to use the term. Later Mrs. Roosevelt was instrumental in using the phrase in the United nations “Declaration of Human Rights” and enshrined the term in the English and world language.
Although not particularly noticed at the time, FDR was the first person to use the term, “Human Rights” which is today in all our vocabularies.
Rights belong to the individual according to Rawls, not to the community of subgroups. Justice demands that the rights of the individual may not be sacrificed for the supposed benefit of the community or entire society. Not all agree with this, but it tends to differentiate Western cultural values from most others in the world where group, community or national benefit
Norvell Kay Granger is an American Republican politician from the U.S. state of Texas. She has represented the state's 12th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997. She has been the Ranking Member of the United States House Committee on Appropriations since 2019, when Rodney Frelinghuysen retired.
