Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
We have to protect the rights of the American people.
And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.
The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.
Even though we may focus first on the rights of our own country, that does not mean that we should disregard the rights of everyone else.
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.