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He was never weary of sowing and resowing in the laws of the Nation and in the mind of the people the grand ideas of the Declaration of Independence.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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Grimké emphasizes Sumner's relentless efforts to instill the ideals of the Declaration of Independence into American law and public consciousness.
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