We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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