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The lesson Arendt draws is that it is not freedom and autonomy from all social and political entities that liberates us to be rights bearers…. Instead, it is embeddedness, political membership, and social inclusion that are necessary to have any rights at all, especially the human right to life itself.

Margaret Somers. 2008. Genealogies of Citizenship. Pg. 6. 

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