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Whether dormant or wakeful, it only awaits an opportunity to become the mastering impulse of the soul.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Whether dormant or wakeful, it only awaits an opportunity to become the mastering impulse of the soul.”
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Mann suggests that the desire for freedom is always present, waiting for the right moment to emerge.
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The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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