Oh, I agree that Pete was wrong, and the "no brain" part was, ironically, kinda brainless.
Gotcha.
In my opinion, there's natural rights and then there's societal rights (which can take on a whole host of names depending on the societal structure).
Natural rights are that which exist within nature, abscent any form of community. They are all things that are inherent upon oneself. You have the right to live. You have the right to defend yourself. You have the right to speech, to believe as you wish, to be around who you wish, etc. However, these natural rights extend only to the point in which you are able to exert them. There is no protection, there is no notion that your rights can not be infringed upon.
These are rights people can not GIVE YOU. They are things that if you strip away all form of society you would still be able to strive to do. You can restrict these rights, but you can never fully take them away.
Societal Rights are ones that exist thanks to the social contract. They are typically rights unable to exist within a state of nature. For example, "the right to vote" would be a societal right as there would be no such notion in the state of nature (Though it would be essentially a restricted version of the right to choose). Things like "Every citizen gets healthcare" would be a societal right. The notion of one persons rights ending if they infringe your own is, itself, a SOCEITAL right. Societal Rights go the opposite way than natural rights...they can always be expanded, but they can never be made truly permanent.
Freedom of Speech as a notion is a natural right. As a soceity, we've placed agreed upon limitations to it...such as that speech being unable to infringe upon anothers rights through purposeful lying as a means of defaming the person (slander) as an example.
We have rights in nature, but they're not protected and extend only to the point in which we can act upon them on our own. Whether people want to think they're endowed by a creator, by nature, by humanaity, whatever then more power to them....but ultimately one has "rights" even if there is no government, those rights are simply not protected.