Brezhnev then read from the paper some carefully crafted words. designed to claim that the Soviet legal system had acted in accordance with his nations laws and that there was nothing he could do about this case or others like it. He knew that I would raise the question. and he was not surprised when I persisted in describing the deleterious consequences to the Soviet Union and its standing among free people because of the continued holding of those who are willing to offer their lives for freedom. I left with him a list of several hundred Soviet citizens. mostly Jews. who I knew were trying to obtain exit visas from the authorities to find freedom for themselves and their families. As I have said before. America did not invent human rights. human rights invented America.