Human Rights and Democracy: What is the connection?

Here is a video of Rabbi Jonathon Sacks comparing "human rights" and "democracy".

In 5:35 minutes he manages to analyze the value and pitfalls of both, human rights and democracy.

"It is bad to be oppressed by a minority but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority... the possession of unlimited power...corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding of monarchs...The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free, is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."

But he says it so much better in the video than I can.
Enjoy...
Rabbi Jonathon Sacks comparing "human rights" and "democracy".