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The knife wounds him who would use it to wound his fellow.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “The knife wounds him who would use it to wound his fellow.”
Editor's note · Context
Mann uses a metaphor to illustrate the self-destructive nature of harmful actions.
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The liberty of voting includes all other liberties.
These are but specimens of what the Fugitive Slave law has already done, before the public mind has become familiarized with its brutalities, and while there is yet some sensibility to the claims of justice and mercy left among us.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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