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“That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the early advocates of human liberty, never included and were never intended for us as a people. It is only a question of sheer accident that we happen to be fellow citizens today with the descendants of those who, through their advocacy, laid the foundation for human rights.”

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.”

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Book:The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)

Source: The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)

“My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America for those moral inspirations that lie at the basis of all freedomthat America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity.”

Knows World Years Humans Dream Light Inspiration America Lying Humanity Turns Moral Rights Bases Human Rights Flags

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.”

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Author:John Adams

“Often people who already had an interest in human rights work. What I did notice with all of them, even the people who professed to be interested in human rights, was that activism was somewhat a concept in their mind - a symbolic flag on the quad or something to show how many people were starving in the world. But once they saw their efforts connected to a person, I did see a change.”

People World Mind Humans Persons Shows Interest Effort Saws Rights Concepts Human Rights Connected Activism Flags Starving Symbolic Quads

Author:Adam Braver