By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.
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.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.
A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
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 had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.