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Charles Sumner: “The Pharisaism of race becomes an element of character, when, like all other Pharisaisms, it should be cast out.”

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The Pharisaism of race becomes an element of character, when, like all other Pharisaisms, it should be cast out.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner critiques racial hypocrisy and calls for its elimination from society.

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