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Because a person is born the subject of a given state, you deny the sovereignty of the people? How about the child of Cuban slaves who is born a slave, is that an argument for slavery? The one is a fact as well as the other. Why then, if you use legal arguments in the one case, you don’t in the other? - Franz Grillparzer
Attribution: Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), Austrian author. Notebooks and Diaries (1836).

Categories: Author, Civil Rights, Slavery, Tradition

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