Given everything going on these days, this piece by Jeffrey Simpson from >10 years ago—inspired by Obama’s first inaugural speech— is particularly salient: "In a world full of rights, we ignore our responsibilities" theglobeandmail.com/opinion/in-a-w… #cdnpoli #COVIDCanada 
“ ‘rights' talk is often about what the state owes us by way of protection against itself or in affirming obligations that the state must fulfill toward us; whereas talk of "responsibility" reminds us of what we owe each other, what we owe the society that incorporates us…"
“... what we owe the country of which we are a part, and the world of which we are a member.”
"Rights are fundamentally about me; responsibility is mostly about us.”
Words to live by—always, but especially now.
"Rights are fundamentally about me; responsibility is mostly about us.”
Words to live by—always, but especially now.
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