Quote#Freedom
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act…
Quote byBooker T. Washington · 1856–1915
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (12 February 1909).
English (original)
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
— Booker T. Washington
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