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That was my supreme object; that was the ardent aspiration of my soul.
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Sumner reveals that his ultimate goal has always been the pursuit of human rights.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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 larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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