It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.
Interpretation
Understanding human rights empowers individuals to defend them.
This quote emphasizes the importance of awareness and education concerning human rights. It suggests that knowledge of one's rights and the means to protect them is crucial for individuals to assert and defend those rights effectively.
In practice
During a human rights workshop, this quote can be used to stress the importance of knowledge.
Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.
We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.
Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.
A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Whenever you feel happiness it is always from the inner. Then mind immediately jumps in and takes control and says, 'It is because of me.' When you are in love, it is like death, you feel blissful. Immediately mind comes in and says, 'Okay, this is me, this is because of me.'
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.
"I just like to know," said Pooh humbly.
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