| President Carter on Human Rights | ||
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| Tape Master: | 1191 | |
| Catalog #: | 494253 | |
| Clip Number: | 494253-4 | |
| Orginal Film: | ||
| Timecode: | 01:04:25 - 01:06:21 | |
| Location: | Washington, DC | |
| Year Shot: | 1978 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | CIVIL RIGHTS: Misc INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Misc. LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Washington D.C. PERSONALITIES: Carter, Jimmy POLITICS: Public Address (Speech) | |
| Description: | President Carter continues: "The American people want the actions of their government, our government, both to reduce human suffering and to increase human freedom. That's why, with the help and encouragement of many of you in this room, I have sought to rekindle the beacon of human rights in American foreign policy. Over the last 2 years we've tried to express these human concerns as our diplomats practice their craft and as our Nation fulfills its own international obligations. We will speak out when individual rights are violated in other lands. The Universal Declaration means that no nation can draw the cloak of sovereignty over torture, disappearances, officially sanctioned bigotry, or the destruction of freedom within its own borders. The message that is being delivered by all our representatives abroad, whether they are from the Department of State or Commerce or Agriculture or Defense or whatever, is that the policies regarding human rights count very much in the character of our own relations with other individual countries. In distributing the scarce resources of our foreign assistance programs, we will demonstrate that our deepest affinities are with nations which commit themselves to a democratic path to development. Toward regimes which persist in wholesale violations of human rights, we will not hesitate to convey our outrage, nor will we pretend that our relations are unaffected." | |
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