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Shall that Equality before the Law, which is the best part of citizenship, be denied to those who do not happen to be white?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Shall that Equality before the Law, which is the best part of citizenship, be denied to those who do not happen to be…”
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Sumner argues for equality before the law regardless of race.
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