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On this statement alone, without one word of argument or illustration, you will surely recoil.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “On this statement alone, without one word of argument or illustration, you will surely recoil.”
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Sumner believes that the mere presentation of the injustice will provoke a moral reaction from the audience.
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