“These are the rights of all human beings. They are yours wherever you are. Demand that your rulers and politicians sign and observe this declaration. If they refuse, if they quibble, they can have no place in the new free world that dawns upon mankind.”

—  H. G. Wells

The Rights of the World Citizen (1942); a revised edition of The Rights of Man

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English writer 1866–1946

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