Corporate rights (n.) concede too much: speaking of too many rights for the king or the slaveowner gives away the ground — why should such institutions have rights at all?
Economic rights (n.) such as food, housing and medical care were waved away by Reagan's UN ambassador as a letter to Santa Claus, though they stand in the Universal Declaration beside all the rest.
Human rights (n.) treaties get every chance to stall in Congress, while trade deals must pass untouched: trade is one thing, torture another.
Human rights (n.) were, in George Kennan's secret advice, a vague and unreal objective to drop in favour of straight power — though fine, even obligatory, in public speeches.
Human rights (n.) trampled by a useful ally shrink, in Western capitals, to concerns best prefaced with "alleged."
Human rights (n.) become a topic in the press only after the tyrant falls out of favor: the shah's record went unreported while he served our interests.
Minority rights (n.) meant, as Madison spoke of them in public, one particular minority: the opulent.
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