Restoring human rights requires restoring national rights, not abstract declarations.

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• Some slaves demanded liberty by citing the Rights of Man. (similarity 0.84)
• Refugees clung to nationality because birthright alone seemed to secure rights (similarity 0.81)
• Social stability must never come at the cost of necessary change or social justice (similarity 0.80)
• Human rights are only protected in practice by one’s own sovereign state. (similarity 0.80)
• An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.79)
• Human rights are actually citizens’ rights that can be lost without producing absolute rightlessness. (similarity 0.79)
• Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.78)
• Planters feared the Declaration of Rights would reach the colonies (similarity 0.78)