No man chosen for such an enterprise is ever heard to say, ‘My commander has wronged and dishonored me,’ but rather, ‘He has known well whom to choose.’ Such, too, is the language of those who are required to suffer what would make the timid and the ignoble weep.
Mann illustrates that those chosen for difficult tasks understand the wisdom behind their selection, embracing their challenges.
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Yet, by denying education to the slave, you destroy not merely the right, but the power, of personal examination in regard to all that most nearly concerns the soul’s interests.
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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