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Yet it is this very religious despotism over millions of men which it is now proposed, not to destroy, but to create.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “Yet it is this very religious despotism over millions of men which it is now proposed, not to destroy, but to create.”
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Mann warns against the creation of new forms of religious oppression rather than abolishing existing ones.
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A southern slave stands higher, politically, than a northern laborer, if the latter must vote as his employer dictates.
My instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, may all mislead; but from the first time, now years ago, when I heard this subject broached, my instincts, reason, judgment, conscience, have all been in its favor.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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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