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It is never permitted, not even to deprive the worst man of the humblest right.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “It is never permitted, not even to deprive the worst man of the humblest right.”
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Mann argues that even the worst individuals should not be deprived of their basic rights, emphasizing the importance of justice for all.
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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.
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