I'm grading student papers, and when I started one tonight I was like "hmmm, that sounds familiar". Weirdly, the paper I graded yesterday has nearly the same start, even though the topics are different. None of the other students in the class used this start […]
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![The Government of the United States is contending for something much greater than mere
rights of property or privileges of commerce. It is contending for nothing less high and sacred
than the rights of humanity, which every Government honors itself in respecting and which no
Government is justified in resigning on behalf of those under its care and authority.
Only her actual resistance to capture or refusal to stop when ordered to do so for the purpose
of visit could have afforded the commander of the submarine any justification for so much as
putting the lives of those on board the ship in jeopardy. This principle the Government of the
United States understands the explicit instructions issued on August 3, 1914, by the Imperial
German Admiralty to its commanders at sea to have recognized and embodied, as do the
naval codes of all other nations, and upon it every traveler and seaman had a right to
depend.
It is upon this principle of humanity as well as upon the law founded upon this principle that
the United States must stand.
— President Wilson[12411125]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yawqje2jovlptql5orkw3di2/bafkreifytvje5x2zxbtsuvx7vigyqx4634feaxss4vadsgj7ls4cqx3fhu)
