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But it is as true of a state as of an individual, that repentance is the first step towards reformation.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “But it is as true of a state as of an individual, that repentance is the first step towards reformation.”
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Mann asserts that both individuals and states must acknowledge their wrongs and seek repentance as a pathway to improvement.
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Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
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.
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