If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.
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We can never protect the rights by only thinking about our rights. By performing the universal responsibility with a compassionate mind, you can protect your own right and that of others.
As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.
We have to protect the rights of the American people.
We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights should be, and if we don't protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them.
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.