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Surely the race enslaved for generations has suffered enough without being doomed to this prolonged proscription.
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Sumner argues that the historically oppressed race should not endure further discrimination.
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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.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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