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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

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We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

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Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society. ↗

— Lawrence Kohlberg

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The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in. ↗

— Trent Lott

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Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state. ↗

— Jim Garrison

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The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence. ↗

— Ron Paul

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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). ↗

— Ayn Rand

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