Now, therefore, the General Assembly proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations. You might be thinking, why do they even have to write this? Well, think about it. Things like the constitutions of various countries, especially the United States, these only applied to those countries. But now there was an attempt to write down, to codify something that would apply to all human beings, to the entire planet. And here's just some of the 30 articles to that declaration, to that Universal Declaration of Human Rights. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.