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All the good that reaches him, reaches him in defiance of these privations and disabilities.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “All the good that reaches him, reaches him in defiance of these privations and disabilities.”
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Mann asserts that any good that reaches slaves does so despite the overwhelming obstacles they face.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
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.
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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