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By Jimmy Carter
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it's the other way around. Human rights invented America.
- Source
- Farewell Address to the Nation, January 14, 1981
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Carter's farewell address to the nation, January 14, 1981. He names human rights as one of three great issues and says the nation was the first founded explicitly on such an idea.