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One basic value remains curiously absent from those enthroned in the postbellum legal order. The movement to redeem ourselves from the evil of slavery should have prompted a commitment to a value even more basic than equality: the infinite human value of all human beings.
The movement to redeem ourselves from the evil of slavery should have prompted a commitment to a value more basic than equality: the infinite value of all human beings.