Individual Rights

Famous quotes containing the words individual and/or rights:

    Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
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    Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)