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Charles Sumner: “Especially am I moved, if this wrong be done to the weak and humble.”

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Especially am I moved, if this wrong be done to the weak and humble.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner expresses a strong emotional response to injustices faced by the weak and humble.

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