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Colored parents, anxious for the education of their children, are compelled to live in the neighborhood of the schools, to gather about them,--as in Eastern countries people gather near a fountain or a well.
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Sumner illustrates the lengths to which colored parents must go to secure education for their children.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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