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On the recordApril 7, 2014
By our Declaration of Independence we were given a mandate, a responsibility, a kind of destiny to carry that message which was universal human rights and there is no people in the world that don't respond to that.
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

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Emphasizing the U.S. responsibility to promote universal human rights globally.

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