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The denial of any one of these rights is therefore equivalent to a denial of all the others.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “The denial of any one of these rights is therefore equivalent to a denial of all the others.”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner emphasizes the interconnectedness of rights, arguing that denying one right undermines all others.
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They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.
They do not tell us that we are the freest and happiest people on earth, inasmuch as each of our male adults is allowed one voice in ten millions in the choice of the men, who are to rob, enslave, and murder us.
On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.