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Edmund Burke: Oppression, the poorest and most illiterate are judges of it, iv. 281.

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Oppression, the poorest and most illiterate are judges of it, iv. 281.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke asserts that even the poorest and least educated can recognize oppression.

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