We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder - but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.
Interpretation
We have the right to live without fear, but we must also take responsibility for maintaining that security.
This quote emphasizes the duality of rights and responsibilities in society. While everyone is entitled to a safe and secure life, achieving that security requires collective action and commitment from all individuals to contribute towards a crime-free and orderly environment. It highlights the importance of mutual responsibility in ensuring the safety and freedom of all members in a community.
In practice
This quote would be appropriate in a community meeting focused on safety initiatives.
If an African-American or a recent immigrant - or anyone else, for that matter - can't feel secure walking into a police station or up to a police officer to report a crime, because of a fear that they're not going to be treated well, then everything else that we promise is on a shaky foundation.
One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.
The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures.
God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing - resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.
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