“Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.” GivingCertainSecretEmotionRightsMankindDutyFormerLatterUnconditionalImperativesBenevolenceConditional Author:Immanuel Kant
“... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman will have her "rights," and the Indian will have his rights, and the Negro will have his rights, and all the strong will have learned at last to deal justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly; and our fair land will have been taught the secret of universal courtesy which is after all nothing but the art, the science, and the religion of regarding one's neighbor as one's self, and to do for him as we would, were conditions swapped, that he do for us.” Has BeensArtSelfLastsStrongCausesJusticeWalksDealsSecretRightsLandConditionsTaughtFairsWeakMercyUniversalSocial JusticeDuesNeighborIndianConsiderationCourtesyStrong Will Author:Anna Julia Cooper
“If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human rights abuses.” IfsHumansPersonsSecretRightsHeroAbuseHuman RightsCablesDiplomaticExposingBradley Manning Author:Peter Tatchell
“The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise.” IfsGivingTwoLyingEvilNaturalSecretRightsBalanceGoodnessOppositesExtremesRecognitionGood And EvilPairsExcessInsufficientContendingTwo Extremes Author:Dion Fortune
“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.” WarGovernmentFormSecretRightsMankindRepublicanHistoricalForms Of GovernmentRepublicanism Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts