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And in all such proceedings there shall be no disability or exclusion on account of color.
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Sumner asserts that there should be no discrimination based on color in legal proceedings.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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