“A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.”
Article 24 <br class="br"> "Declaration of Rights" http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)
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William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
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For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Politics
“The rights of men to the use of land are not joint rights: they are equal rights.”
Henry George (1839–1897) American economist
Part I : Declaration, Ch. III : "Social Statics" — The Right of Property
A Perplexed Philosopher (1892)
Context: The rights of men to the use of land are not joint rights: they are equal rights.
Were there only one man on earth, he would have a right to the use of the whole earth or any part of the earth.
When there is more than one man on earth, the right to the use of land that any one of them would have, were he alone, is not abrogated: it is only limited. The right of each to the use of land is still a direct, original right, which he holds of himself, and not by the gift or consent of the others; but it has become limited by the similar rights of the others, and is therefore an equal right.
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)
The Life Process is the End—not man, nor any other animal temporarily privileged to weave a world's philosophy. Non-human beings were not made for human beings any more than human beings were made for non-human beings. Just as the sidereal spheres were once supposed by the childish mind of man to be unsubstantial satellites of the earth, but are known by man's riper understanding to be worlds with missions and materialities of their own, and of such magnitude and number as to render terrestrial insignificance frightful, so the billions that dwell in the seas, fields, and atmospheres of the earth were in like manner imagined by the illiterate children of the race to be the mere trinkets of men, but are now known by all who can interpret the new revelation to be beings with substantially the same origin, the same natures, structures, and occupations, and the same general rights to life and happiness, as we ourselves.
Source: The Universal Kinship (1906), The Ethical Kinship, "Conclusion", p. 324
Of Dominican friar Nicholas de Valencia
The Jews of Spain and Portugal (1848) pp57-8
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Benjamin Banneker (30 August 1791) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field(DOCID+@lit(tj060149)) <br class="br">1790s <br class="br">Context: No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.
Robert P. George (1955) American legal scholar
Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/964228974422515712 (15 February 2018) <br class="br">2018
Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam
Those are undeniable truths.
Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence (2 September 1945), Ho Chi Minh, Selected Works (1960-1962), Vol. 3, pp. 17-21
William Tyndale (1494–1536) Bible translator and agitator from England
The Obedience of A Christian Man (1528)