If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.
It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.
A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.
The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.