Listen to the audio excerpt from Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, who used nonviolent resistance to fight for democracy in her country, Myanmar.

22:14 - 24:06

Kyi states, “We are fortunate to be living in an age when social welfare and humanitarian assistance are recognized not only as desirable but necessary. I am fortunate to be living in an age when the fate of prisoners of conscience anywhere has become the concern of peoples everywhere, an age when democracy and human rights are widely, even if not universally, accepted as the birthright of all. How often during my years under house arrest have I drawn strength from my favourite passages in the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights…”

Which option best explains Kyi’s purpose for referencing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document published by the United Nations in 1948?