These are the considerations which influence them, which animate them, and will animate them, against all oppression,--knowing that He who is called first among them, and first among us all, both of the flock that is fed and of those who feed it, made Himself "the servant of all.
Burke discusses the motivations that drive individuals to resist oppression, invoking a higher moral authority.
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