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- I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas
- This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different. — Ernie Fletcher
- Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. — Victor Hugo
- Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. — Gerrit Smith
- True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. — Gerrit Smith
- There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor. — Gerrit Smith