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Nevertheless, despite these disadvantages, I shall at once tell you what I
hold to be right and just about these very matters. In my opinion it is your
duty to treat with severity those who are proved to be aliens, who without
having either won your consent or asked for it, have by stealth and violence
come to participate in your religious rites and your common privileges, but to
bring help and deliverance to those who have met with misfortune and can prove
that they are citizens; for you should consider how pitiful above all others
would be the plight of us whose rights have been denied, if, when we might
properly sit with you as those exacting the penalty, we should be numbered with
those who pay it, and should unjustly be condemned along with them because of
the passion which the subject arouses.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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