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No such principle as justice to anybody--black or white--was the ruling motive on either side.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “No such principle as justice to anybody--black or white--was the ruling motive on either side.”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner claims that neither side in the conflict was motivated by justice for anyone.
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