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Horace Mann: “Like the right to life, it pertains, by the law of nature and of God, to every human being.”

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Like the right to life, it pertains, by the law of nature and of God, to every human being.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

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Mann asserts that the right to life is a fundamental right that belongs to every human being.

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