the feeling of oneself as counting in civil society as a person with rights

the feeling of oneself as counting in civil society as a person with rights.

. . . the fierce outcry raised against the Jews . . . ignores the fact that they are, above all, human beings;

and humanity, so far from being a mere superficial, abstract quality . . ., is on the contrary itself the basis of the fact that civil rights arouse in their possessors the feeling of oneself as counting in civil society as a person with rights.

( PR #270, remark )