It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.
Interpretation
Understanding human rights empowers individuals to defend them.
This quote emphasizes the importance of awareness and education concerning human rights. It suggests that knowledge of one's rights and the means to protect them is crucial for individuals to assert and defend those rights effectively.
In practice
During a human rights workshop, this quote can be used to stress the importance of knowledge.
Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.
We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.
Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.
What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'
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