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.
And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.
Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion
Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?
The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property.
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