Edmund Burke: “You forget, then, that you have often established an insulting…”

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You forget, then, that you have often established an insulting equality between them and men covered with crimes and made up of ignominy.

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Edmund Burke

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Burke criticizes the false equivalence made between innocent individuals and those guilty of serious crimes.

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Edmund Burke: “You forget, then, that you have often established an insulting equality between them and men covered with crimes and…”