“Rights come from human experience, particularly experiences with injustice… In a word, rights come from wrongs.”

Shouting Fire: Civil Liberties in a Turbulent Age, Little, Brown & Company, New York, NY, (2002) p. 4

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American lawyer, author 1938

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