Based on the following quote about human rights in the attached image by Hannah Arendt from "Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)" give at least three specific and concrete examples that will help understand the significance of the source in its historical moment and how it would be placed in a larger narrative of European history?

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Based on the following quote about human rights in the attached image by Hannah Arendt from "Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)" give at least three specific and concrete examples that will help understand the significance of the source in its historical moment and how it would be placed in a larger narrative of European history?







1. "No paradox of contemporary politics is filled with a more poignant irony than the
discrepancy between the efforts of well-meaning idealists who stubbornly insist on
regarding as "inalienable" those human rights, which are enjoyed only by citizens of
the most prosperous and civilized countries, and the situation of the rightless
themselves."
-Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
Transcribed Image Text:1. "No paradox of contemporary politics is filled with a more poignant irony than the discrepancy between the efforts of well-meaning idealists who stubbornly insist on regarding as "inalienable" those human rights, which are enjoyed only by citizens of the most prosperous and civilized countries, and the situation of the rightless themselves." -Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
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