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Henry Ward Beecher: It is the only basis on which the poor, the ignorant, the weak, the laboring masses can entrench against oppression.

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It is the only basis on which the poor, the ignorant, the weak, the laboring masses can entrench against oppression.
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Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher argues that the Bible serves as a foundation for the marginalized to resist oppression.

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