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The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together.

Source: Statement at Stanford University, 3 Nov 99.
-- Mary Robinson, (May 21 1944-____), Irish political leader; She was the first woman elected to be the President of Ireland, 1990.

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