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“It is not enough to speak of human rights in the formal sense of freedom of speech, freedom from arrest and that sort of thing. We must also speak of freedom from hunger, freedom from disease, freedom from living under a leaking roof.”

Source: Address to the UN General Assembly, New York, 21 October 1987

Context Addressing the UN a year after taking power in 1986 at the head of a rebel army; he has remained Uganda's president ever since.

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Yoweri MuseveniUganda · b. 1944
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