On the recordMay 10, 1977
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy because human rights is the very soul of our sense of justice.
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presidency.ucsb.eduHuman rights is the soul of our foreign policy because human rights is the very soul of our sense of justice.
Speech on Human Rights
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