Human Rights: What?
P. Schultz
November 15, 2011
Quotations from a book entitled Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-Opted Human Rights, by
James Peck.
“…the rise of the American human rights movement since the
1970s has coincided with an unprecedented increase in inequality, with brutal wars
of occupation, and with a determination to establish American preeminence via
the greatest concentration military power in history….In the end, the movement
must decide: Can it find a way to truly confront the abusive operations of
wealth and power in all their many forms? Or will it consent to being a weapon
of privileged power seeking to protect it interests – and its conscience?” [ p.
9 ]
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