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Human rights are universal, indivisible, and interdependent. Human rights are what make us human. When we speak of the right to life, or development, or to dissent and diversity, we are speaking of tolerance. Tolerance will ensure all freedoms. Without it, we can be certain of none. The raging ethnic cleansing in Kosho is an example of intolerance. The Serbian’s will not tolerate the Albanians at any cost. They are forcing them from their …

…the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up. If we expect our rights to be respected and protected, we must speak up to preserve human rights for all humanity. We must become watchdogs of our government to insure that human rights will be respected and protected, for without human rights there is no organized government.