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Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.
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Your Rights Matter, Because You Never Know

Edward Snowden
Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.
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We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property, and the rights of man. rights are grand things, divine things in this world of god's; but the way in which we expound these rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. i can see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights.
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