He insisted that we should ever “remember the rights of the savage, as we call him.” “Remember,” he exclaimed, “that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God as can be your own.
Morley emphasizes the sanctity of life across cultures, urging respect for the rights of all people, including those labeled as 'savages.'
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