Surely of all "rights of man," this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

Thomas Carlyle

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Topic

Human rights Paternalism Politics

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Source

Chartism

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism. 1829, p. 52.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Chartism." Carlyle: Selected Writings. Penguin, 1980.

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"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Thomas Carlyle

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Past and Present
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Time
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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

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Medium
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Language
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Time
1848 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei. [The Communist Manifesto]. 1848.

Current Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. Translated by Samuel Moore and Friedrich Engels. Penguin Classics, 2002.

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A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
Language
English
Time
1967 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

King Jr, Martin Luther. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Harper & Row, 1967, ch. 4.

Current Citation

King Jr, Martin Luther. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Beacon Press, 2010, ch. 4.