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Her sermons denounced the oppression of African Americans and women in general, and became prominent in campaigns for both abolition and women’s rights.

Several weeks ago Greenland's [60,000] people voted themselves self-governance rights from Denmark.

I thought I could use her research as a jumping-off point of things that I was seeing in society and I wanted to start to think about how I could use historical images to talk about the past being present and think about ways that we can speak to the perennial struggle for human rights and equal rights through my appropriation of photographs in the form of sculpture, video, installation and paintings.

The first one, if you look at the Declaration of Independence and actually read it, the phrase that sticks in many of our minds is things about inalienable rights.

When we label a person tragic or angelic, bad or good, we rob them of their humanity, along with not only the messiness and complexity that that title brings, but the rights and dignities as well.

And since then I've followed the unfolding issue of worker rights.

The question is, as a building professional, as an architect, an engineer, as a developer, if you know this is going on, as we go to the sights every single week, are you complacent or complicit in the human rights violations?

Now, what is remarkable is that civil rights in America were achieved in the 1960s.

But what is equally remarkable is socioeconomic rights in Africa have not moved forward very fast even since the age of colonialism.

Since then, the world has moved forward, partly as a result of what happened with the Holocaust, and people's concern about the rights of individuals within territories where they need protection, partly because of what we saw in Rwanda, partly because of what we saw in Bosnia.

I'm talking to you about the worst form of human rights violation, the third-largest organized crime, a $10 billion industry.

At the time he was looking after the rights of political prisoners in Italian jails.

A little background: when my grade five was learning about child rights, they were made to roll incense sticks, agarbattis, for eight hours to experience what it means to be a child laborer.

Getting back to my premise, I used stamps, by the way, because you don't have to pay anybody for the rights.

But you don't have to go to eastern Congo to find human rights abuses.

But I think this is why I have dedicated my life to promoting citizen video to expose human rights violations, because I believe in the power of video to create undeniable truths.

Why is it that so much more video is not leading to more rights and more justice?

Imagine if that information could be trusted just a little bit more, what the potential would be for journalists, for human rights investigators, for human rights lawyers.

Brazil is a tough place for human rights.

So we started developing a methodology that took all that unquantified visual evidence and turned it into data, turning video into data, and with that tool, LGBT organizations are now using that data to fight for rights.

I have hope that we can turn more video into more rights and more justice.

The truth is, the real truth, the truth that doesn't fit into any TED Talk, is fighting human rights abuse is hard.

There are no easy solutions for human rights abuse.

We don't know yet how to build a society which is environmentally sustainable, which is shareable with everybody on the planet, which promotes stability and democracy and human rights, and which is achievable in the time-frame necessary to make it through the challenges we face.

I hope there aren't any snail rights activists around here.

We certainly don't want to give up the rights, when people do something wrong, to seek redress in the courts.

We've been trained to think that the way to look at every dispute, every issue, is a matter of kind of individual rights.

Seventy-eight percent of the middle and high school teachers in America have been threatened by their students with violating their rights, with lawsuits by their students.

Then they said, "OK, the next rights are sold for 55 million dollars.

The next rights are sold for 612 million dollars."

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