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It is a thread of asbestos in the web of the soul, which all the fires of oppression cannot consume.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “It is a thread of asbestos in the web of the soul, which all the fires of oppression cannot consume.”
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Mann poetically describes the enduring nature of the love for freedom within the human soul.
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Why, fellow-citizens, the ballot is worse than useless, if it be not FREE!
Better be debarred from the privilege of voting at all, than to be mocked with the form, while cheated of the substance.
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.
Men of Massachusetts! moral and religious men! lovers of freedom and of your country, were you prepared for this?
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