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The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the ...
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in prop ...
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extincti ...
The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored people ...
Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of gove ...
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with hu ...
Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy f ...
Because a person is born the subject of a given state, you deny the sovereignty of the people? How about the child of Cuban slaves ...
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