Today, a reality underlies the New Order, faintly discernible and struggling toward visibility. It is essentially the nature of the spirit. Some scientists believe there is something in the human person deeper than ethics and reason. We have the capacity to be moved by the suffering of others. This inherent power serves as the foundation for respect for others and the relief of their suffering.
Humans are compassionate beings.
In this perspective, human rights are expressions of compassion for the suffering poor. Suffering and compassion offer the spiritual key to interpret human rights as the rights of the poor. In the context of globalization, we need a new form of solidarity . . . We cannot afford to separate the civil and political rights from the cultural and economic rights of individuals and communities. Violation of human rights of the majority of the Asian peoples in the Third World is the result of global injustice.