Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of protecting the rights of others as a means of ensuring one's own rights are protected.
Jeffrey R. Holland's quote suggests that self-interest and altruism are interconnected when it comes to rights. By advocating for the rights of others, individuals and groups create a collective safeguarding of freedoms that benefits everyone, including themselves. This reciprocal protection fosters a society where rights are universally respected and upheld, highlighting our shared responsibility in the pursuit of justice and equality.
In practice
In a speech advocating for social justice, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of solidarity in protecting individual rights.
For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history β perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still, it stands.
Don't you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying, there is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon. Some come late. Some don't come until heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in Good Things to Come.
Maybe the purchasing and the making and the wrapping and the decorating - those delightfully generous and important expressions of our love at Christmas - should be separated, if only slightly, from the more quiet, personal moments when we consider the meaning of the Baby (and his birth) who prompts the giving of such gifts.
Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help & happiness ahead.
Brothers and sisters, this is a divine work in process, with the manifestations and blessings of it abounding in every direction, so please donβt hyperventilate if from time to time issues arise that need to be examined, understood, and resolved. They do and they will. In this Church, what we know will always trump what we do not know. And remember, in this world, everyone is to walk by faith.
The Crucifixion, Atonement, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ mark the beginning of a Christian Life, not the end of it.
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,_x000D_ That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;_x000D_ Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not,_x000D_ Their names without a record are forgot,_x000D_ Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th' dust_x000D_ Nor wit nor gold, nor buildings scape time's rust;_x000D_ But he whose name is graved in the white stone_x000D_ Shall last and shine when all of these are gone.
All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.
If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.
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