Right, 2013
Water color on paper, 56 x 42 cm.

"You who’ve lost the concept of a right, you who swing in impotent evasiveness between the claim that rights are a gift of God, a supernatural gift to be taken on faith, or the claim that rights are a gift of society, to be broken at its arbitrary whim – the source of man’s rights is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A – and Man is Man. Rights are conditions of existence required by man’s nature for his proper survival. If man is to live on earth, it is right for him to use his mind, it is right to act on his own free judgment, it is right to work for his values and to keep the product of his work. If life on earth is his purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being: nature forbids him the irrational. Any group, any gang, any nation that attempts to negate that fights, is wrong, which means: is evil, which means: is anti-life.
Rights are a moral concept – and morality is a matter of choice."

Excerpt from the book, "Atlas Shrugged", by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957