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You need to be your own individual.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.

You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.