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.
Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.
Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
Are you searching for your soul? _x000D_ Then come out of your own prison.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution, the working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew.
That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.
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