The amendment says that all citizens, white and black, are entitled to the equal and impartial enjoyment of any accommodation, advantage, facility, or privilege furnished by common carriers, by innkeepers, by licensed theatres, by managers of common schools supported by general taxation or authorized by law.
Sumner outlines the rights of all citizens to equal access to public accommodations, reinforcing the principle of equality before the law.
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Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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