Bill Clinton: “The real genius of the Declaration of Human Rights is that it affirmed…”

On the recordDecember 5, 1999

The real genius of the Declaration of Human Rights is that it affirmed that basic human rights are not cultural, but universal.

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Remarks on Presenting the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights

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