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Human right

noun

(law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law).

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... American continent and islands? There, three-fourths of the race are in a state of the most deplorable personal slavery. And those who are not, are in a scarcely less deplorable condition of political slavery, to barbarous chiefs—who value neither life nor any other human right, or enthralled by priests to the most abject and atrocious superstitions. Take the following testimony of one of the few disinterested observers, who has had an opportunity of observing them in both situations.[244] "The wild savage is the child of passion, unaided by one ray of ...

— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various

Words linked to "Human right" : right, right to the pursuit of happiness, civil right, jurisprudence, right to privacy, right to liberty, law, equality before the law, freedom of thought, right to life