Note the difference between a right and a privilege. A right, in the abstract, is a fact; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it is. Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never. Privilege, in the abstract, does not exist; there is no such thing. Rights recognized, privilege is destroyed.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre (1866 - 1912), American anarchist and feminist writer and orator, "The Economic Tendency of Freethought" in Liberty Vol. XI, #25 (15 February 1890)
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