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Compassion
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
  • Author: Thomas Jefferson
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letter to Jean Nicholas Demeunier, January 24, 1786
Contribution #4925


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