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It also enables the weaker party, even while it remains the weaker party, perpetually to annoy, alarm, and injure their oppressors.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “It also enables the weaker party, even while it remains the weaker party, perpetually to annoy, alarm, and injure their…”
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Spooner notes that the weaker party can still resist oppression, highlighting the dynamics of power and resistance.
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In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.
They do not tell us that we are the freest and happiest people on earth, inasmuch as each of our male adults is allowed one voice in ten millions in the choice of the men, who are to rob, enslave, and murder us.
They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.