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Here I would interpose the further inquiry, Why will you make your school-house the nursery of prejudice inconsistent with the declared principles of your institutions?
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He questions the morality of allowing schools to foster racial prejudice, which contradicts the principles of equality.
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It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
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Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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