Charles Sumner: “If not all children of Adam, we are all children of God,--if not all from the same father on earth, we are all from the…”

“If not all children of Adam, we are all children of God,--if not all from the same father on earth, we are all from the same Father in Heaven; and this affecting relationship, which knows no distinction of race or color, is more vital and ennobling than any monopoly.”