“Rights talk, trading on the moral authority of the civil rights movement, became the new language of liberalism.” ─ The Revolt Against the Masses, copyright © 2013 by Fred Siegel, Encounter Books, Page 149.
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“Rights in America had traditionally functioned to protect the individual from arbitrary state power. In the new [Liberal] dispensation, blacks were to be protected from whites, women from men, students from teachers, children from parents and family, and nature from predatory humans. An all-encompassing yet benevolently centralized state [Overseen by Liberals] would be organized into flying squadron of rights-protectors dispensed to oversee human interactions.” ─ The Revolt Against the Masses, copyright © 2013 by Fred Siegel, Encounter Books, Page 150.