When such a dreadful work is doing, or threatens to be done, can any one stand listlessly by, see it perpetrated, and then expect to excuse himself, under the false, impious pretext of Cain, “Am I my brother’s keeper?
Mann emphasizes the moral responsibility individuals have to act against injustice, referencing the biblical story of Cain.
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What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
Once a day the hatches were opened, to receive food and to disgorge the dead.
The aged and the infant she left for the vultures; but the strong men and the strong women she drove, scourged and bleeding, to the shore.
He that chooses to employ a sort of labor that yields only half as much to the hand as another sort would yield, makes a choice that is not only unprofitable, but deeply injurious to his interest.
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