The phrase that best identifies Twain as an anti-imperialist is: "one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive's new freedom away from him." This highlights his criticism of the contradiction in American imperialism, where freedom is claimed for some while being denied to others.
Select the phrase from Mark Twain's essay, "The Person Sitting in Darkness," published in February of 1901, that best identifies Twain as an anti-imperialist.
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There is something curious about this-curious and unaccountable. There must be two Americas: one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive's new freedom away from him, and pick a quarrel with him with nothing to found it on; then kills him to get his land.
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