John Stuart Mill quote: I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow ...

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .

~ John Stuart Mill ~

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