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— Robert A. Williams, Jr."US law and international human rights law have radically diverged in the past years in terms of the recognition of indigenous people's rights. International human rights law now looks at not whether or not the tribes have formal ownership or legal title in a Western legal conception might have it, but rather they look at the tribe's historical connection to that land."
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The idea of universal human rights may not seem as weird to some people as the idea of a personal God, but it is still a metaphysical idea that liberalism, at least as we know it, couldn't really survive without.
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When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
— James A. Baldwin
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