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Unwavering fidelity to the great principles of human freedom.”--The Declaration of American Independence, in 1776, was the first complete assertion of human rights, on an extensive scale, ever made by mankind.
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Mann emphasizes the significance of the Declaration of Independence as a foundational document for human rights.
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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.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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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