The Human Rights of Life, Liberty and Property

The Human Rights of Life, Liberty and Property

When Jack Donnelly said "Human rights are a social practice that aims

to realize a particular vision of human dignity and potential by

institutionalizing basic rights…." I immediately realized that to

achieve this, the rights of life (race, religion, and gender), liberty

and property are most vital. They are the most important rights in

order to attain the aforementioned dignity in that they are the rights

that touch our individual lives the most often and consistently. These

three main rights, which make up our Human Rights Code, cover a

variety of different areas dealing with human rights but are also able

to fuse what really matters to human beings. Throughout the course of

this essay, the importance of each right will discussed, as well as

the effect they have on all of our lives.

Human rights are political and personal rights that prohibit arbitrary

punishments and entitle each person to matter equally (regardless of

race, religion and gender).[1] Race matters to all human beings

because everyone should have the right to be treated equally in spite

of skin color. As recently as one hundred years ago, people of certain

races, who were not part of the majority, were treated differently

whether it was during slavery in the United States in the early 1900's

or during the Holocaust in Germany during WWII.

Along with race, religion should also be a matter interest in terms of

human rights because it gives people something important to believe,

and in many cases, direction within their own life. Religion is a

powerful focus in everyday life in that it gives people a way to

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[6]Weston, Burns H. "Human Rights" Human Rights in the World Community.

[7]Abella, Rosalie. "From Civil Liberties to Human Rights:

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Century.

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