woolman in A Sentence

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    Woolman, for instance,“simplified his life in order to enjoy the luxury of doing good,” according to one of his biographers.

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    Woolman is now largely forgotten, but in his own time he was a powerful force who did far more than wear plain, undyed clothes.

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    Slavery, said Woolman, was motivated by the"the love of ease and gain," and no luxuries could exist without others having to suffer to create them.

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    For Woolman, luxury was not sleeping on a soft mattress but having the time and energy to work for social change, through efforts such as the struggle against slavery.

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    In the 18th century, John Woolman argued that using this Biblical curse to justify the enslaving of blacks, depriving them of their natural rights,“ is a supposition too gross to be admitted into the mind of any person who sincerely desires to be governed by solid principles.”.

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