The Cedar Mesa Project

Basic Human Rights

"Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness, power to forgive."
Schweitzer, Albert, The Teaching of Reverence for Life, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. p.41

BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS:


• Each person has a right to be treated respectfully.
• Each person has the right to say no without explanation and without guilt.
• Each person has the right to slow down and take time to think.
• Each person has the right to change his or her mind.
• Each person has the right to ask for what he or she wants.
• Each person has the right to ask for information.
• Each person has the right to make mistakes.
• Each person has the right to make choices and accept the consequences of those choices.
• Each person has the right to own and express his or her own feelings.
• Each person has the right to ask for help.
• Each person has the right to maintain a separate self that is independent of the expectations, the approval, or the influence of others.

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