I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.
To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.
The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.
Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.
A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.
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