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Will you cast them again into the den of Tyranny, or will you help their despairing efforts to escape?
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Sumner challenges the audience to consider their responsibility towards those suffering under tyranny.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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