Rights & Responsibility
I think Clarence Thomas (Imprimis, October 2007) hit the nail on the head with this quote:
“There may be a disconnect between my world and yours, because when my grandfather was raising me, people didn’t talk about their rights so much. They talked about civil rights, yes, but they didn’t simply talk about rights and freedom. They talked more about the responsibility that came with freedom–about the fact that if you were to have freedom, you had to be responsible for it.
Then..
“What my grandfather believed was that people have their responsibilities, and that if they are left alont to fulfill their responsibilities, that is freedom.”
We’d all be better of and more free if this is how we legislated and this is how we lived!
