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December is National Human Rights Month.
Join us in affirming our shared humanity and building Beloved Community where all flourish and live in dignity. Check out the list below of quotes for every day of December, each echoing the importance of human rights and how we can achieve a more just world together.
- “Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Our hopes for a more just, safe and peaceful world can only be achieved when there is universal respect for the inherent dignity and equal rights of all members of the human family.” – Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
- “A right delayed is a right denied.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” – John F. Kennedy
- “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” – Nelson Mandela
- “You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” – Clarence Darrow
- “Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.” – 14th Dalai Lama
- “Human rights mean the right to good health, a dignified life and respect for the will of everyday people.” – Denia Castillo
- “The achievement of social and economic rights cannot be separated from the protection of civil and political rights and liberties.” – Maria Alesi
- “If we are to serve as a beacon for human rights, we must continue to perfect here at home the rights and values which we espouse around the world: A decent education for our children, adequate medical care for all Americans, an end to discrimination against minorities and women, a job for all those able to work and freedom from injustice and religious intolerance.” – Jimmy Carter
- “It’s widely recognized that there is no peace without development and no development without peace; it is also true that there is no peace and sustainable development without respect for human rights.” – Antonio Guterres
- “The struggle for human rights is at its core a struggle for human dignity.” – Kerry Kennedy
- “America’s support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.” – William Bennett
- “The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement – depending on people – will be judged on where they come out on that question.” – Bayard Rustin
- “Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don’t like as well as those we do.” – Trevor Phillips
- “There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees – not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.” – Dick Durbin
- “If human rights are an attribute of being human, then we must consider the fact that tens of millions of displaced people around the world have been rendered less than human.” – Masha Gessen
- “Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.” – Shirin Ebadi
CCC-Newsletter – December 2025
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It is the summer’s great last heat,
It is the fall’s first chill: They meet.
–Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
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Composting
Really helpful hints to keep your compost bin clean and odor free!
Including gnat and ant control – really works!
More – Article and fun to read…
Do you like using your garbage disposal?
The Water Company wishes you wouldn’t.
Recycling Makes Cents!
Recycling rules change regularly but not by whim. New equipment, smarter processing, and better understanding of the market potential contribute to more effective recycling.
Bottle Bill would encourage recycling habits
State lawmakers are looking to put Mr. Trash Wheel on a diet by considering a bill that would add bottle deposits to single-serve containers. Consumers who return the bottles would get that money back. Supporters hope the bill will serve as an incentive to recycle so that fewer bottles end up in our waterways. Bottle Bill Info
PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY
We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice Ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.
“The Hill We Climb” Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Poem and watch her hands, listen, and learn.
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