On the record
Like the right to life, it pertains, by the law of nature and of God, to every human being.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Mann asserts that the right to life is a fundamental right that belongs to every human being.
Share
More from Horace Mann
The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Slavery is an unspeakable wrong to the conscience.
Did the law ever contemplate so cruel and revengeful a proceeding?
This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.
Other voices in this conversation
