If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority o…

Abraham Lincoln
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution. ✨ First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution. ✨ First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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