To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of …

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To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1854). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin, p.394
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