Thomas Paine (or Pain; February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736]- June 8, 1809) was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary.
"Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good." Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
The Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people.
In the face of a global miscarriage of justice, The Rights of Man made a clear statement of mankind’s responsibilities to itself.
Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better.
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Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people.
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Some are reprints of famous books brought up-to-date, but usually they are entirely new books published for the first time.' H. G. Wells wrote The Rights of Man in 1940, partly in response to the ongoing war with Germany.
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Paine then gave the work to another publisher, J. S. Jordan, and on the advice of William Blake, Paine went to France to be out of the way of possible arrest in Britain.
The Rights of Man, a book by Thomas Paine, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard its people, their natural rights, and their national interests.
In the first portion of the work, Paine argues that human rights are unalienable since they originate from nature itself, which is to say that all human rights are given by existence itself, so any human has them.