Article 7.
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Article 7
In our eyes
all are equal
In this law’s eyes
all are equal
Who protects the law
that protects us?
– Larry Jaffe
(Please take a look at the whole poetry project the quoted verse belongs to: The Human Rights Project)
Law Like Love
Law, say the gardeners, is the sun,
Law is the one
All gardeners obey
To-morrow, yesterday, to-day.
Law is the wisdom of the old,
The impotent grandfathers feebly scold;
The grandchildren put out a treble tongue,
Law is …
– W.H. Auden
Totally didn’t get that second poem – makes even less sense than the law. Unless that was the point.
But about the rule of law?
I’m still a believer. 🙂