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		<title>Ingersoll, Robert Green -- Lecture (1872-01-29), &#8220;The Gods,&#8221; Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenceless are protected [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenceless are protected and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.</p>
<br><b>Robert Green Ingersoll</b> (1833–1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator<br>Lecture (1872-01-29), &#8220;The Gods,&#8221; Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38813/pg38813-images.html#Alink0002:~:text=If%20abuses%20are,by%20man%20alone." target="_blank">Source</a>)
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On not waiting for divine intervention to solve social ills.<br><br>

First given on the 135th birthday of Thomas Paine. <a href="https://archive.org/details/godsotherlectu00inge/page/58/mode/2up?q=%22if+abuses+are+destroyed%22">Collected</a> in <i>The Gods and Other Lectures</i> (1876).

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		<title>George, Henry -- Social Problems, ch. 1 (1883)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the bottom of every social problem we will find a social wrong.</p>
<br><b>Henry George</b> (1839–1897) American economist<br><i>Social Problems</i>, ch. 1 (1883) 
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		<title>Hugo, Victor -- Letter (1862-10-18) to M. Daelli  [tr. Wraxall (1862)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are right, sir, when you tell me that Les Misérables is written for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="tab">You are right, sir, when you tell me that <em>Les Misérables</em> is written for  all  nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to Republics which  have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those great sores which  cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines traced upon the map.<br />
<span class="tab">In every place where man is ignorant and despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the hearth which should warm  him, the book of <em>Les Misérables</em> knocks at the door and says: &#8220;Open to  me, I come for you.&#8221;</p>
<p><span class="tab"><em>[Vous avez raison, monsieur, quand vous me dites que le livre</em> les Misérables <em>est  écrit pour tous les peuples. Je ne sais s&#8217;il sera lu par tous, mais je  l&#8217;ai écrit pour tous. Il s&#8217;adresse à l&#8217;Angleterre autant qu&#8217;à l&#8217;Espagne,  à l&#8217;Italie autant qu&#8217;à la France, à l&#8217;Allemagne autant qu&#8217;à l&#8217;Irlande,  aux républiques qui ont des esclaves aussi bien qu&#8217;aux empires qui ont  des serfs. Les problèmes sociaux dépassent les frontières. Les plaies du  genre humain, ces larges plaies qui couvrent le globe, ne s&#8217;arrêtent  point aux lignes bleues ou rouges tracées sur la mappemonde.<br />
<span class="tab">Partout où  l&#8217;homme ignore et désespère, partout où la femme se vend pour du pain,  partout où l&#8217;enfant souffre faute d&#8217;un livre qui l&#8217;enseigne et d&#8217;un  foyer qui le réchauffe, le livre</span></em> les Misérables <em>frappe à la porte et dit: Ouvrez-moi, je viens pour vous.]</em></span></span></span></p>
<br><b>Victor Hugo</b> (1802–1885) French writer, journalist, human rights activist, politician<br>Letter (1862-10-18) to M. Daelli  [tr. Wraxall (1862) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Works_of_Victor_Hugo_Les_miserables/CohIAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=victor+hugo+%22Empires+which+have+serfs%22&pg=PA343&printsec=frontcover" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Oeuvres_compl%C3%A8tes_de_Victor_Hugo/A_iwHAmBNbUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22quand%20vous%20me%20dites%20que%20le%20livre%22">Source (French)</a>). Daeli was the publisher of the Italian translation of <em>Les Misérables</em>.						</span>
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