"Inalienability" Quotes from Famous Books
... with that of our democratic despotisms, the essential equality of man. The dreamer in the gardens of Epicurus recognized neither in himself, nor in the slave who ministered to his luxury, the immortality of the spiritual nature. Neither Solon nor Lycurgus taught the inalienability of human rights. The Barons of the Feudal System, whose maxim was emphatically ... — The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society |