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If popular views change, they change, “like a wave driven with the wind and tossed;” like a chameleon, changing its color with every contact.
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Mann compares individuals who change their beliefs with shifting societal views to a chameleon adapting to its environment.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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