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Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future | Robert Fuller

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Channel: The Long Now Foundation · 2011 · Science & Technology

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What does it take to change human habits of cruelty (such as slavery, genocide) and humiliation (racism, sexism)?

What do past and present efforts for human rights tell about their future?...

Robert Fuller is author of the ground-breaking "Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank" (2004).

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