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We had, as it were, a creative power put into our hands.
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Mann reflects on the responsibility placed upon society to shape its future.
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Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
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.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
So far from facilitating the increase of individual or national wealth, slavery retards both.
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