“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“This right of free choice is no special privilege claimed by the Germans alone. It is an elemental requirement of human justice.”
1963, Address at the Free University of Berlin
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“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Not attribution to Jefferson earlier than William Jennings Bryan's Baltimore address of January 20, 1900 <br class="br"> California Digital Newspaper Collection, Los Angeles Herald http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19000121.2.94.; appears in proximity to a reference to Jefferson in the 1878 "Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn", reprinting a 1850 Sacramento advertisment <br class="br"> via Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=Cis3Ni8wJkgC&pg=PA280 Samuel Curtis Upham, "Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn: Together with Scenes in El Dorado, in the Year 1849-'50, with an Appendix Containing Reminiscences: Together with the Articles of Association and Roll of Members of "The Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California".. Earliest known variant is from the August 31, 1844 issue of "Niles' National Register", authored by the committee of William C. Bryant, George P. Barker, John W. Edmonds, David Dudley Field, Theodore Sedgwick, Thomas W. Tucker, and Isaac Townsend. <br class="br"> via Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=M1oUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA438. <br class="br">Misattributed
“To his mind, free will was a privilege, not a right.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Unleashed
Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011) American pathologist, euthanasia activist
Quoted in "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia" - Page 247 - by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie - 2006
2000s, 2006
“I claim a right to live on my land and accord you the privilege to return to yours.”
Chief Joseph (1840–1904) Nez Percé Chieftain
Speech rejecting the demands that he lead his people onto a reservation. (1876)
Context: Perhaps you think the Creator sent you here to dispose of us as you see fit. If I thought you were sent by the Creator, I might be induced to think you had a right to dispose of me. Do not misunderstand me, but understand fully with reference to my affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do with as I choose. The one who has a right to dispose of it is the one who has created it. I claim a right to live on my land and accord you the privilege to return to yours.
Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast
Exclusive Interview with Aron Ra – Public Speaker, Atheist Vlogger, and Activist https://conatusnews.com/interview-aron-ra-past-president-atheist-alliance-america/, Conatus News (May 17, 2017)
“I am to do justice, and demand that of all, — a universal human debt, a universal human claim.”
Theodore Parker (1810–1860) abolitionist
Ten Sermons of Religion (1853), III : Of Justice and the Conscience https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ten_Sermons_of_Religion/Of_Justice_and_the_Conscience <br class="br">Context: Justice is moral temperance in the world of men. It keeps just relations between men; one man, however little, must not be sacrificed to another, however great, to a majority, or to all men. It holds the balance betwixt nation and nation, for a nation is but a larger man; betwixt a man and his family, tribe, nation, race; between mankind and God. It is the universal regulator which coordinates man with man, each with all, — me with the ten hundred millions of men, so that my absolute rights and theirs do not interfere, nor our ultimate interests ever clash, nor my eternal welfare prove antagonistic to the blessedness of all or any one. I am to do justice, and demand that of all, — a universal human debt, a universal human claim.
“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”
Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948) American judge
Address at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill (17 June 1925).
Milton Mayer (1908–1986) American journalist
I Think I'll Sit This One Out (1939)
Context: Justice alone knows liberty, equality, and fraternity, and justice is a human virtue arising from man's human capacity to reason. We cannot make sense out of justice by looking at the moon or taking dope or building battleships. We can make sense out of justice by using our reason to discover that justice, like wisdom, is better than rubies.
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Radio Address to the Nation on Solidarity and United States Relations With Poland http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=43110#axzz1Go825Y2t (1982-10-09). Compare with an earlier Reagan speech: "... where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. They remind us that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." Labor Day Speech at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey, September 1, 1980 http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/reference/9.1.80.html <br class="br">1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)