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Is it a Republic of Equal Laws, or an Oligarchy of the Skin?
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Sumner contrasts the ideals of a republic with the reality of racial oligarchy.
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Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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