Human rights are laws with reasons protecting some activities by humans. These laws allow humans to do things or not to do things freely and by choice. There are rights like the right to be educated, the right to remain silent, etc. This post isn’t to count human rights to you. The purpose of this post is to encourage you to learn and know your rights.

When you know your rights

First and foremost; knowledge. When you know your right, you know it. Since no knowledge is wasted, you’ll surely use it one day

When you know your rights, you won’t be oppressed by anyone(individuals, companies, government, etc)

Even if you get oppressed, you’ll fight back because you know you’re been oppressed

Knowing your rights would give you motivation to take some certain actions and steps you previously wouldn’t because you’re now confident that what you’re about to do isn’t wrong.

Simply put; knowing your right would allow you to be able to do/not do things based on your will and also to accept/not accept external actions based on your will.

When you don’t know your human rights

The opposite

Just to save time, revert every point i stated above. Those would happen when you don’t know your right.

Oppression

You can only free someone from slavery when he’s/she’s aware that he/she is a slave. When you don’t know your rights, you may be oppressed by people and you wouldn’t even know. Even if you know you’re been oppressed by people, you wouldn’t have the motivation to fight them back cause you aren’t even sure why

Automatic patience/negative endurance

Endurance is a wonderful quality with outstanding attributes but not in this case. If you don’t know your human rights and you’re been oppressed by people , you’ll have no option than to wait till the people stop by themselves

Afraid of the government

Enough is enough. That’s what people say when angry. You may be unable to protest if the government don’t act in the favor of the mass . Who listens to peaceful protests?

Unable to reach full potentials

People need a confident environment in order to express themselves fully. If you aren’t able to fully express yourself, you won’t be able to act to your full potentials. Ignorance of your right would make you unable to act like you could.

Low self-esteem

What if you’re with people who know their rights but you don’t? Wouldn’t you wait for them to dictate actions(in certain issues) for you first before you’ll have confidence to do it? Everyone in life have areas when they know more and are better but that shouldn’t make you wait for people to tell you what to do before you do it. Ignorance of your right would make you unable to speak where others are speaking.

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Thanks for the educational article