natural rights
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Natural rights knew no race, class or religion.
From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2019
Natural rights, fundamental values, basic principles, etc., are all euphemisms which men use because they don't want to call things by their right names .
From Time Magazine Archive
Natural rights are one sort of rights; civil rights are another sort of rights; and political rights are a third sort of rights.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Natural rights of man in respect to the fruits of the earth.
From Richard II Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
Natural rights were deductions from a fundamental metaphysically demonstrable datum of individual free will, and natural law was an ideal critique of positive law whereby to secure these rights in their integrity.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe
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