Gandhi and Human Rights

This quote is from a book called 'Mahatma Gandhi and Promotion of Human Rights' by Thomas Vithayathil:

"It is not difficult to find that in the International Bill of Human Rights and other proclamations of the UN some of the Gandhian principals and ideals have been reaffirmed and elaborated. Gandhi's advocacy and activism to protect human rights boosted world-wide efforts to provide for all human beings a life with dignity and freedom conducive to physical, mental, social and spiritual welfare. As the encyclical 'Peace on Earth' teaches, "every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity, and to the means which are necessary and suitable for a proper development to life." Science and economic advance without humanity will worsen the social and economic inequalities unless preventative steps are taken. The elimination of want in life, esteem for every human being, co-operation for the welfare of all- all these lead to an authentic human life. Gandhi justly pointed out the evils and dangers of a merely quantitative economic growth. Only when humankind, in a spirit of mutual solidarity, progresses harmoniously can we realize the ideal of sarvodaya (the welfare of all).