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For, Sir, be well assured, there is but one way of settling this great cause, and that is by conceding these equal rights.
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Sumner asserted that the only resolution to the civil rights issue is through the acknowledgment of equal rights.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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