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Albert Beveridge: There the poor are not oppressed, the rich are not privileged....

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There the poor are not oppressed, the rich are not privileged....
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Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

Editor's note · Context

Beveridge describes an ideal society where wealth and poverty do not dictate privilege or oppression.

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