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“People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.”

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Book:Last Words

Source: Last Words

“Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.”

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Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is not a Church. It is a State conceived as a contractual organism long before Rousseau ever thought of such a thing, and animated by an ethical ideal which regards man not as an earth-rooted creature, defined by this or that portion of the earth, but as a spiritual being understood in terms of a social mechanism, and possessing rights and duties as a living factor in that mechanism.”

“The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.”

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Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!”

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Author:Leon Bourgeois

“I'M SYMPATHETIC, because I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe Darren Wilson acted within his rights and duty as an officer of the law and killed Michael Brown in self defense like any of us would in the circumstance. Now he has to fear the backlash against himself and his loved ones when he was only doing his job. What a horrible thing to endure. OR maybe he provoked Michael and ignited the series of events that led to him eventually murdering the young man to prove a point.”

Source: Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.

“'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.”

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Author:Laurance Labadie

“The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.”

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Author:Ameen Rihani