Human Rights Law

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“[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“... the Black woman in America can justly be described as a “slave of a slave.””
—Frances Beale, African American feminist and civil rights activist. The Black Woman, ch. 14 (1970)

“Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)