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“The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.”

Mean States United Liberty Principles United States Rights Citizens Advantage Constitution Property Unions Enjoyment Territory Protected Immunity

Book:Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids

Source: Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids

“You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own property, or it comes to nothing. Why do men want any of those things that are called political rights and privileges? Why do they, for instance, want to vote at elections for members of parliament? Oh! Because they shall then have an influence over the conduct of those members. And of what use is that? Oh! Then they will prevent the members from doing wrong.”

Source: A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland

“Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.”

Humans Mean Ends Democracy Rights Products Human Rights Enjoyment

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“Specific protection must be granted to human rights defenders and whistleblowers who have in some contexts been accused of being unpatriotic, whereas they perform, in reality, a democratic service to their countries and to the enjoyment of human rights of their compatriots.”

Humans Country Reality Rights Democratic Human Rights Protection Granted Enjoyment Accused Defenders Unpatriotic Whistleblowers

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.”

Men Natural Liberty Rights Exercise Limits Members Enjoyment Natural Rights

Author:Marquis de Lafayette

“Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of their full human rights because of their colour, race, ethnicity, descent or national origin.”

People Humans Certain Race Rights Racism Notion Human Rights Deny Enjoyment Colour Descent Ethnicity Universality Race Ethnicity

Author:Irene Khan

“Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.”

People Way Poverty Rights Impossible Essentials Extremes Enjoyment Humane Rights And Freedoms Right To Life Extreme Poverty Humane Way

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.”

Persons Perfect Rights Institutions Secure Enjoyment Countrymen

Book:William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation some natural right pre-existing in the individual, but to the enjoyment of which his individual power is not, in all cases, sufficiently competent. Of this kind are all those which relate to security and protection.”

Men Kind Individual Natural Cases Rights Security Members Foundation Protection Civil Rights Relate Enjoyment Competent Individual Power

Book:The Rights of Man

Source: The Rights of Man