Charles Sumner: “It is easy to see that the separate school, founded on an odious discrimination, and sometimes offered as an equivalent…”

“It is easy to see that the separate school, founded on an odious discrimination, and sometimes offered as an equivalent for the common school, is an ill-disguised violation of the principle of Equality, while as a pretended equivalent it is an utter failure, and instead of a parent is only a churlish step-mother.”