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"But Britain is the parent country, say some. Then the more shame upon her
conduct. Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their
families..... This new World hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of
civil and religious liberty from EVERY PART of Europe. Hither have they fled,
not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster;
and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first
emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still."
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Based on this excerpt, with which of the following statements
would Paine have agreed? With which of the following statements
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