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    Alexander Hamilton
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    The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or dusty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity its...

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    Timothy Keller
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    Romans 12:1, Luke 1:38, Luke 5:1-11, Mark 10:17-27, Genesis 22:1-18, Ephesians 2:10
    I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me through....

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    Dr. Seuss
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    I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights."

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    Bartolomé de las Casas
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    The entire human race is one … all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

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    John C. Maxwell
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    When you become a leader, you must focus more on your responsibilities than on your rights.

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    Nicholas Wolterstorff
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    Ephesians 2:14, Colossians 3:15, Matthew 5:9, Isaiah 9:6-7, Romans 14:17, Psalm 85:10, Micah 4:3-4
    In shalom, each person enjoys justice, enjoys his or her rights. There is no shalom without justice. But shalom goes beyond justice. Shalom is the human being dwelling at peace in all his or her relat...

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    J. Paul Getty
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    The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

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    Kevin G. Ford
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    Genesis 11:1-9 , Judges 17:6 , Exodus 32:1-6, Philippians 2:3-4 , Luke 12:16-21, Psalm 133:1
    The problem is not recognizing the importance of the individual. The problem is the glorification of the individual. When the individual self is glorified over the greater good of the community, right...

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    Harvie M. Conn and Manuel Ortiz
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    Matthew 5:25, Matthew 23:7, Mark 5:56, Matthew 25:27, Luke 19:23, Mark 12:1-12, Matthew 8:5, Matthew 9:10, Luke 5:27
    One could not live in any village in lower Galilee and escape the effects and ramifications of urbanization.” Life here was urbanized and urbane as anywhere else in the Empire. Did these urban influen...

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    Dave Harvey
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    Most people think of ambition as climbing, upward mobility, always looking for step up (and willing to step on others to get it. But biblical ambition points in the other direction—the direction Chris...

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    Brennan Manning
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    Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality,...

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    Jacqueline Jones
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    The myth of race is, at its heart, about power relations, and in order to understand how it evolved, we must avoid vague theoretical and historical formulations and instead ask, Who benefited from the...

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    N. T. Wright
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    "Righteousness," within the lawcourt setting-and this is something that no good Lutheran or Reformed theologian ought ever to object to-denotes the status that someone has when the court has...

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    Marilynne Robinson
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    The truth about Obama's birthplace or Trump's relationship with Russia will never be established to the satisfaction of everyone, but Christians know truth of another order, that human beings ...

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    John Paul II
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    Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

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    Leonard Cohen
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    To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

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    Peter Marshall
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    May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

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    John Rawls
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    Galatians 3:28, Isaiah 56:1, Proverbs 31:8-9, Leviticus 19:15, James 2:1
    The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

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    Simon Sinek, David Mead, and Peter Docker
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    Fulfillment is a right and not a privilege. Every single one of us is entitled to feel fulfilled by the work we do, to wake up feeling inspired to go to work, to feel safe when we’re there and to retu...

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    Wendell Berry
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    1 Peter 3:8, Philippians 2:3-4, Galatians 5:14, Romans 12:10, Ephesians 4:32, Luke 6:31, Matthew 7:12
    Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

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    John Milton
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    Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

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    Theodore Roosevelt
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    The cornerstone of this Republic, as of all free government, is respect for and obedience to the law. Where we permit the law to be defied or evaded, whether by rich man or poor man, by black man or w...

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    Os Guinness
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    Freedom always faces a fundamental moral challenge. Freedom requires order and therefore restraint, yet the only restraint that does not contradict freedom is self-restraint, which is the very thing t...

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    Daniel Webster
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    Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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    J. Alec Motyer
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    Those who are Biblically righteous are “right with God and therefore committed to putting right all other relationships in life.

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    Ambrose of Milan
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    James 5:3, Matthew 19:16-30, Mark 10:17-31, Luke 18:18-30
    A possession ought to belong to the possessor, not the possessor to the possession.

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    Woodrow Kroll
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    Romans 3:23-24, Ephesians 2:4-5, Titus 3:5, Luke 18:13-14, James 2:13, Micah 7:18
    Justice is for those who deserve it; mercy is for those who don't.

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    John Selden
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    Zechariah 7:9-10, Micah 6:8, Romans 2:14-15, Proverbs 21:3, Psalm 37:28, Isaiah 33:22, Leviticus 19:15
    Equity in law is the same that the spirit is in religion, what everyone pleases to make it: sometimes they go according to conscience, sometimes according to law, sometimes according to the rule of co...

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    George Orwell
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    The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. the law is no protection. governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temp...

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    Dallas Willard
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    Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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