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You may bruise its heel, but you cannot crush its head.
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Sumner uses this metaphor to illustrate resilience in the fight against oppression.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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