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  • Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.

    Thomas Paine, Mark Philp (2008). “Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings”, p.402, Oxford University Press
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