If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?
We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.
The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.
There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.
We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves, by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there.
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
