Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and …

Robert Green Ingersoll
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Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). The Gods, and Other Lectures, p.59
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