Rights Are Not Equivalent to Freedom

Music: La DHericourt. By Claude Benigne Balbastre.  From the free classical sheet music collection of the W. Icking Archive, copyright by Pierre Gouin at Kunst der Fuge.

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Rights are not equivalent to freedom. All have claims upon the lives of all. Make yourself a servant of the kingdom, Acting in the interests of the whole. Deeds are sermons preached upon the plain As each from each has much to lose or gain; Nor is faith the free choice of one soul.