Charles Sumner: “Nor is it in the power of the majority to deprive the minority of this…”

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Nor is it in the power of the majority to deprive the minority of this privilege....

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Sumner asserts that the majority cannot deny educational privileges to the minority, reinforcing democratic principles.

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