We know that all mankind revolts at oppression, if it be real; we know that men do not willingly submit to punishment, just or unjust; and we find that Durbege Sing had near relatives, who used for his relief all the power which was left them,--that of remonstrating with his oppressors.
Burke emphasizes the universal human aversion to oppression and the natural resistance to unjust punishment.
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