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When the court house is in chains, Faneuil Hall may well be dumb.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “When the court house is in chains, Faneuil Hall may well be dumb.”
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Mann uses a metaphor to illustrate the silence of a significant venue in the face of injustice.
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