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Education elevates the inferior classes of society, teaches them their rights, and points out the means of enforcing them.
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Lewis Tappan
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Tappan advocates for education as a means to uplift the lower classes and empower them with knowledge of their rights.
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Or the People--for they will be THE PEOPLE--may resolve to be free, and you and all you hold dear may be sacrificed in the contest.
When an infant will bring one hundred, and a man from four hundred to a thousand dollars in the market, slaves are not commodities to be found in the cabins of the poor.
Hence the insane efforts constantly made to expurgate the literature of the world of all recognition of the rights of black men.
They are the nobility of the south, and they find it expedient to forget that there are any commoners.