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It is the dignity of a black people seeking to place itself, by its own efforts, at the banquet of the civilized world.
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Sumner speaks to the dignity and aspirations of a black people striving for recognition and equality.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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