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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On the 10th December 1948, the United Nations (UN) came together and proclaimed the Universal Declarations of Human Rights. The UDHR stated that every single human has human rights. Some of the rights stated were ones such as "Everyone has the right to have education" and "the right to democracy". However these "rights" we're not enforced as laws so many people still don't have some of these rights. -
"I have a dream"
On 28th August 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the "I have a dream" speech. Over 250,000 people attended this civil rights speech at the Lincoln Memorial. Now, over 50 years later, people still remember the phrase - "I have a dream" -
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Cyrus Cylinder
Often referred to as the "first declaration of human right, this Babylonian text-filled cylinder was written in 539 B.C. by Cyrus the Great who declared that everyone should have freedom and believe in whatever religion they wanted
