Source: The Science of Rights 1796, P. 220
“I believe the only way to protect my own rights is to protect the rights of others.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
1950s, Remarks at the United Negro College Fund luncheon (1953)
John Hirst (1942–2016) Australian historian
The Australians: Insiders and Outsiders on the National Character since 1770 (2007)
“A man wants no protection when his conduct is strictly right.”
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705–1793) British judge
Bird v. Gunston (1785), 3 Doug. 275.
Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 237.
James Wesley Rawles (1960) Survivalist-fiction author and blogger
Tools For Survival (2009)
Joseph Hayne Rainey (1832–1887) politician
Speech on the Civil Rights Bill (3 February 1875), as quoted in the Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 2nd Session, Vol 3, p. 959.
1875
Mario Cuomo (1932–2015) American politician, Governor of New York
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.
Flavia Agnes (1947) Indian activist and lawyer
On India's adultery law, as quoted in " What The Law Says http://www.outlookindia.com/article/what-the-law-says/220011" Outlook India (5 May 2003)
David McNally (1953) Canadian political scientist
Source: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 2, Globalization - It's Not About Free Trade, p. 41
