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Essay / Analysis of the Declaration of Human Rights by...
The first is that “Since human rights were proclaimed “inalienable”, irreducible and indeducible from other rights or laws, no authority was invoked for their establishment…” (Arendt, 291). Furthermore, Arendt also states that "the rights of man, supposedly inalienable, have proven to be inapplicable... Although everyone seems to agree that the fate of these people consists precisely in their loss of human rights, no one seems to know which ones. rights that they lost when they lost those human rights. (Arendt, 293). Finally, she shares the thought that “We are not born equal; we become equal as members of a group through our decision to secure mutually equal rights. (Arendt, 301). These three statements made by the author Hannah Arendt can be analyzed in more detail and applied to Little Bee in a very interesting way.