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What aggravates the wrong, is, that the cruelties of the measure will fall upon the poor, the helpless, the ignorant, the unfriended.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “What aggravates the wrong, is, that the cruelties of the measure will fall upon the poor, the helpless, the ignorant…”
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Mann emphasizes that the cruel effects of oppressive laws disproportionately affect the vulnerable.
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