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Quote by Bartolomé de las Casas
All the nations of the world are made up of human beings, and of each and every human being there is one definition and one only: that they are rational.
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The quote treats humanity as a shared basis across every nation. Whatever differences exist between countries, each person is understood in the same fundamental way: as a human being capable of reason. “One definition and one only” stresses that rationality is presented here as the single essential description of every individual.
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