
“I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.”
1950s, Remarks at the United Negro College Fund luncheon (1953)
Religious Belief and Public Morality (1984)
Context: I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose.
We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us.
This freedom is the fundamental strength of our unique experiment in government. In the complex interplay of forces and considerations that go into the making of our laws and policies, its preservation must be a pervasive and dominant concern.
“I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.”
1950s, Remarks at the United Negro College Fund luncheon (1953)
Movieline Magazine "Gillian of the Spirits" http://gilliananderson.ws/transcripts/98/98movieline.shtml (January, 1999)
1990s
Preface to Idishé Bibliotek, i. 1890.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/24/AR2006052401420.html
If I have any influence in the New World it is to help in that way and even if it takes two hundred years to become practical, then after my death that will bring out practical results, and then my children will shake hands with the Protestants of the New World in a friendly manner. I do not wish those evils which exist in Europe to be continued as much as I can influence it, among the Half-breeds. I do not wish that to be repeated in America, that work is not the work of some days or some years it is the work of hundreds of years.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)