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Has any great and glorious cause ever been started upon earth, that did not find itself, at the outset, in a minority?
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Has any great and glorious cause ever been started upon earth, that did not find itself, at the outset, in a minority?”
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Mann questions whether any significant cause has ever started with majority support.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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