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America Did Not Invent Human Rights. In A Very Real Sense Human Rights Invented America.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights
invented America. from his Farewell Address 1981
-- Jimmy Carter, 39th US President
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For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
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