Abstract
The name of the state where I was born and raised-Kentucky-derives from a Native American word meaning "the dark and bloody ground." Were there an Indian word for "the dark and bloody time," it would aptly name this century, a century as unrelentingly dark and bloody as any in human history. In the midst of all the terrible inhumanity of the twentieth century, however, there is a hopeful story: the emergence in international law of the idea of human rights.
Recommended Citation
Michael J. Perry,
Is the Idea of Human Rights Ineliminably Religious?,
27
U. Rich. L. Rev.
1023
(1993).
Available at:
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/lawreview/vol27/iss5/4
