Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
1780s, Letter to Peter Carr (1787)
“Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.”
Message to woman suffrage supporters (c. 1875)
1870s
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Herbert Spencer book Social Statics
Pt. II, Ch. 4 : Derivation of a First Principle, § 3
Social Statics (1851)
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 64.
Ernestine Rose (1810–1892) American feminist activist
At a New York State convention, Rochester, N.Y. (1853), quoted in Kolmerten, Carol A., The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999, p. 129-130.
“Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Book I, ch. 20.
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M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist
Source: A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscovered
“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
"The Limitations of Toleration" (8 May 1888), in The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol VII
Source: The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
“Every time you scratch your nose, you have committed a Holocaust of potential human beings.”
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Source: 2000s, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), p. 30
Context: Perhaps you think that the crucial difference between a fly and a human blastocyst is to be found in the latter's potential to become a fully developed human being. But almost every cell in your body is a potential human being, given our recent advances in genetic engineering. Every time you scratch your nose, you have committed a Holocaust of potential human beings. This is a fact. The argument from a cell's potential gets you absolutely nowhere.