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Where Human Rights are set at nought, there can be no tranquillity except that of force, which is despotism.
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Sumner warns that the absence of Human Rights leads to despotism rather than true peace.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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