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In the metropolis of their nation, their flag does not protect the slave traffic, nor wave over the slave mart.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann points out that the capital of a nation can uphold moral standards that protect human rights, unlike the U.S.
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Mere knowledge, without the moral sense, can take no cognizance of the everlasting distinctions between right and wrong; and so the blind instinct, unguided by knowledge, will be forever at fault in its conclusions.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
It is only in the land of slaves that they are blotted out and annihilated.
They cannot do otherwise with laborers who work by compulsion, for the benefit only of their masters, and whose sole interest in the matter is to do as little and to consume as much as possible.
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