Human Rights Education
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Human Rights Defender Spotlight: Darrick Hamilton and Dr. Helen Bond
Tags Share Darrick Hamilton: Economic Rights What are Economic Rights? Economic rights are human rights that relate to the workplace, social security and access to housing, food, water, healthcare and education. They include the right to fair wages and equal pay; the right to adequate protection in the event of unemployment, sickness or old age;…
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Address at the Americans for Democratic Action Dinner, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
More and more of our children are estranged, alienated in the literal sense, almost unreachable by the familiar premises and arguments of our adult world. And the task of leadership, the first task of concerned people is not to condemn or castigate or deplore
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Speech in Chicago
We face a severe challenge. Daily before our eyes there is a growing army of unemployed and out-of-school youth.
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and experience.
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Speech Delivered at the Commemoration of the 125th year of the Founding of Central High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
I feel we can approach the young people of the world with strength and with confidence.
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Our answer is the world’s hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans.
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Speech at the Meeting of the University of South Carolina Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, Columbia, South Carolina
Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.
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Speech at Worthington, Minnesota
Answers founded on clear and dispassionate thought must be matched to action rooted in conviction and a passionate desire to reshape the world.
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Speech at the New Hampshire Democratic State Convention, Manchester, New Hampshire
Thousands of young men and women serve in the Peace Corps, in isolated villages and city slums all over the globe . . .
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Speech Delivered at the Commemoration of the 125th year of the Founding of Central High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The young throughout the world will not wait for our concern.
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Speech Delivered at the Commemoration of the 125th year of the Founding of Central High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Under conditions of turbulence, social and political change, the young are often directly involved not in learning history in the classroom, but in making history themselves.
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Speech at the University of Alabama
There are many paths to action—to service and sacrifice—open to young people.
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