I love this recent forum quote by JS–thank you for it.
*nichole
Wise words indeed.
You’re welcome, Nicole. It’s one of those common sense ideas the media & politicians don’t ever discuss: )
Beautiful quote. It holds true to our everyday lives. 
Yeah and even those rights are being infringed upon. The Patriot Act essentially allows our govt to take any of those rights away from any of us at anytime. Black, White, Homo, Hetero, etc. However, the Utopian thought of this quote is quite appealing!
Hail Jesus! Full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed is thy name above all names, and blessed is thy mother Mary among women, holy Jesus son of God pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen!
[QUOTE=yogathailand;25993]Yeah and even those rights are being infringed upon. The Patriot Act essentially allows our govt to take any of those rights away from any of us at anytime. Black, White, Homo, Hetero, etc. However, the Utopian thought of this quote is quite appealing![/QUOTE]
Hail Jesus! Full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed is thy name above all names, and blessed is thy mother Mary among women, holy Jesus son of God pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen!
Individual rights refer to the rights of individuals, in contrast with group rights. An individual right is the sanction of independent action. Both natural and legal conceptions or rights may distinguish between individual and group rights, although natural rights theories often limit themselves to discussion of individual rights, group rights thus existing mostly as legal rights. Likewise, while the distinction between individual and group rights may be largely coextensive with that between negative and positive rights, the two pairs of terms are not in fact cointensive; negative group rights and positive individual rights remain conceptual possibilities. Furthermore, while civil and political rights are predominantly concerned with the rights of individuals, leaving the rights of groups to the realm of economic, social and cultural rights, those sets of rights are not identical with the sets of individual rights and group rights either.
Individual rights advocates tend to argue for increased codification of individual legal rights to protect individuals from state infringement of their natural rights. This is traditionally associated with liberalism.