Political Quotes

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In that day, the gospel of human brotherhood, of doing as we would be done by, and of loving our neighbors as ourselves, shall no longer be doled out to us by priests of the broad phylactery sort, in homœopathic doses, reduced to the five hundredth dilution.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann expresses a vision of a future where the principles of human brotherhood are genuinely practiced rather than superficially taught.

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