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They possess, as fully as you or I, those prerogatives of freedom without which life ceases to be a blessing.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “They possess, as fully as you or I, those prerogatives of freedom without which life ceases to be a blessing.”
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Mann emphasizes the inherent rights of all individuals to freedom, highlighting its essential role in a fulfilling life.
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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.
Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
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.
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