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No one born into civilization should be worse off than if born before it began
Drawn from what Thomas Paine said
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- Thomas Paine Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809)
Taking then the matter up on this ground, the first principle of civilization ought to have been, and ought still to be, that the condition of every person born into the world, after a state of civilization commences, ought not to be worse than if he had been born before that period.
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↗Agrarian Justice (1797; Philadelphia, R. Folwell)en.wikisource.org
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