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If modern ideas of 'civil rights' like freedom of speech arise out of Western Enlightenment thought, what kinds of parallel or perpendicular ideals can we identify in pre-20th century "Eastern" cultures?

by /u/sunagainstgold in /r/AskHistorians

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