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He did not ask his own rights, except as the Rights of Man.
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Sumner asserts that true rights are universal and should be viewed as the rights of all humanity.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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