Defending Human Rights In The Giver

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It is essential to defend human rights because all humans have equal rights. Humans should defend for their own rights because everyone should be fair. People like Jonas or Mother Jones defended human rights and did what was right. If people didn’t stand up for their rights then this world would’ve been shaped differently.

In The Giver Jonas stand up for his own human rights because he thought it wasn’t fair that he had to receive all the memories and feel all the pain. Jonas thought that defending his own human rights was essential because he wanted everyone to be fair. He wanted everyone to become equal and became successful in doing it.

Mother Jones is a person who standed up for equal rights. In the article “Mother Jones fierce fighter

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