Campaign for a Violence Free, Stress Free America

A conversation with the founder H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar October 2008

Are human values different from human rights and are they universal?
One of the biggest achievements of the 21st century is the focus on universal human rights. Along with these universal human rights, we cannot ignore universal human values. Without values there is no human relationship, there is no human face on rights. Rights belong to the realm of the head, values belong to the realm of the heart. Rights are a demand or an assertion, but values are taking responsibility. So we need to have both responsibility and rights, and values are part of responsibility.