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RENOWNED HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES

The world’s humanitarians have traditionally stood up for human rights. They recognised that peace and lasting progress could never be achieved without them.

Each of these individuals changed the world in an important way. We should take their guidance to heart because with enough determination we too can make a difference in the world.

In 1951, with the impact of World War II still felt the world over, L. Ron Hubbard wrote, “Ideas, and not battles, mark the forward progress of mankind.”

	The great advocate of peaceful resistance to oppression, Mahatma Gandhi, described nonviolence as “the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.”
	Fighting fiercely against religious persecution in his 18th century France, Voltaire wrote, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
	Martin Luther King, Jr., when championing the rights of black people in the United States in the 1960s, declared that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”