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Horace Mann: “Enslave a man, and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity.”

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Enslave a man, and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann states that enslaving a person destroys their ambition and potential.

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