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It is a self-evident axiom, which only tyrants and slave-traders have denied.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It is a self-evident axiom, which only tyrants and slave-traders have denied.”
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He asserts that the principle of freedom is self-evident, rejected only by oppressors.
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