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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">WHEN YOU DREAM ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS ALONE, IT IS JUST A DREAM; WHEN YOU DREAM WITH OTHERS, IT PRE-EMPTS REALITY</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">. </span><font size="3">(R. Pereira G.)<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 3in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">-Martin Luther King did not say </font><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">“I have a nightmare”.</font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"> </span><font size="3">(L. Stoddard)</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 3in" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><font size="3">-Our future may be beyond our vision, but not beyond our control.</font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> </span><font size="3"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">(</span>Senator Edward M. Kennedy)</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">History is not a good predictor of the future. Our institutions and our ethics come from a different historical era and have not yet been updated to knit together a globally stable society. </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">So I’d say that, for human rights (HR),</span><font size="3"> </font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">we can safely conclude we find ourselves at a watershed of history. </span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Moreover, since in politics one should never let a serious crisis go to waste, this is the (belated) time to take bold steps. It is not by pushing for more control, more purity of intentions or more money that deepening HR violations will be avoided; to pretend being able to do more through these ‘pushes’ is to commit a sin of ignorance. </span></font></p>
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