SAFEGUARDING FREEDOM
:•; „«*'.'.';-■", 'Human liberty and political and economic freedom, the right to worship, the right to speak and act, are not apportioned, safeguarded or destroyed by the application of any geographical or racial rule of thumb, reflects Mr Frank L. Perrin, an American journalist. These rights are inherent, natural, universally vouchsafed. They are lost only when they are surrendered by the voluntary or involuntary action of their possessors. , That is what all the people of liberty-loving countries must realise to-day, to-morrow, and henceforth. It is only as our right of possession is lightly regarded, or as we ignorantly, selfishly or carelessly yield or delegate: to others the dutiejs and responsibilities which are our own*.that we approach the border line which, once passed, can never be recrossed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23882, 9 August 1939, Page 18
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126SAFEGUARDING FREEDOM Otago Daily Times, Issue 23882, 9 August 1939, Page 18
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