Again--take these slaveholding pleas to Scotland and from the graves of the dead and the homes of the living, they shall be replied to in thunder-tones in the language of Burns: "A man's a man, for all that.
Garrison invokes the words of Burns to illustrate the universal dignity of man, regardless of status or condition.
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