Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is about the human right to a standard of living sufficient for a secure and decent life. When I think about driving across North America, whether in parts of various cities or in small towns and rural counties, I easily recall visual evidence that in many places the United States fails to live up to the standards agreed upon by the United Nations in 1948.#
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. #
Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection. #
We rarely discuss the fact that the United Nations have together created a multi-part International Bill of Human Rights, of which the 1948 document is one key. Not discussing these things in the United States makes them easy to ignore, even when the evidence of our own experience urges us to speak. Silence is at all times a great friend of the powerful and the selfish.#
Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is about the human right to a standard of living sufficient for a secure and decent life. When I think about driving across North America, whether in parts of various cities or in small towns and rural counties, I easily recall visual evidence that in many places the United States fails to live up to the standards agreed upon by the United Nations in 1948.#
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. #
Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection. #
We rarely discuss the fact that the United Nations have together created a multi-part International Bill of Human Rights, of which the 1948 document is one key. Not discussing these things in the United States makes them easy to ignore, even when the evidence of our own experience urges us to speak. Silence is at all times a great friend of the powerful and the selfish.#