Remarks in Springfield
10/26/1996
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America did not invent human rights.
We simply will not tolerate child slavery, the sale or trafficking of children, child prostitution or pornography, forced or compulsory chil...
Human rights begin 'in small places, close to home . . . Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.'
The real genius of the Declaration of Human Rights is that it affirmed that basic human rights are not cultural, but universal.