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The animal wants of man must be supplied before he will develop his intellectual or moral powers.
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Mann asserts that basic needs must be met for individuals to develop intellectually and morally.
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It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
Cast it off, West Virginians, whilst yet you have the power; for if you let it descend unbroken to your children, it will have grown to a mountain of misery upon their heads.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
Behind these forty-one indictments for stealing stand drawn up, in battle array, against this same prisoner, seventy-four other indictments for transporting the very slaves whom he is charged to have stolen.
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