Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
Mary WollstonecraftAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: british
- Born: April 27, 1759
- Died: September 10, 1797
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