Henry Ward Beecher: “I do not believe that there is a doctrine of individual rights nor of…”

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I do not believe that there is a doctrine of individual rights nor of civil liberty that can stand outside of Christianity.

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Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher asserts that true individual rights and civil liberties are rooted in Christian principles.

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