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So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.”
Editor's note · Context
This statement underscores the total lack of legal protection for slaves, who live in a state of oppression and darkness.
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Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
The man of independent circumstances has this liberty; and no man’s circumstances, not even the poorest and the humblest, should be so dependent as to take it away.
Let me read to you the disparaging and contemptuous remark of the address on that great palladium of human liberty, the trial by jury.
The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
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