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I do not ask what he would think of his humanity, but what would he think of his sanity?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “I do not ask what he would think of his humanity, but what would he think of his sanity?”
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Mann questions the sanity of a slave owner in light of their actions towards enslaved people.
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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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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