Postcards from my life

"How can Americans justify insisting-by diplomatic, military, economic, or other means- that every other society adopt the moral and political vocabulary of rights?... The ques- tions become painful to contemplate when we face the reality that the United States is the wealthiest society in the world, yet after over two hundred years of human-rights talk, many of its citizens have no shelter, a fifth of them have no access to health care, a fourth of its children are growing up in poverty, and the richest two percent of its peoples own and control over fifty percent of its wealth."
-Henry Rosemont


Quite interesting if I may say so...

I'm working on an essay about human rights, if it's plausible to have universal human rights in a world with so many divirging cultures. It makes for a lot of interesting reading...