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So long as they are denied you will have the colored people justly complaining and knocking at your doors,--and may I say, so long as I remain in this Chamber you will have me perpetually demanding their rights.
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Sumner expressed his commitment to advocating for the rights of colored people as long as he remained in the Senate.
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