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Quotes from The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History — Samuel Moyn

born 1972 United States

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The drama of human rights, then, is that they emerged in the 1970s seemingly from nowhere. If the Soviet Union had generally lost credibility (and America’s Vietnamese adventure invited so much international outrage), human rights were not the immediate beneficiaries.

The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Moyn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.