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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.”
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Mann asserts that the right to vote is foundational to all other liberties, underscoring its significance in a free society.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
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.
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