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Charles Sumner: “Nothing unjust, nothing ungenerous, can be for the benefit of any person or any thing.”

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Nothing unjust, nothing ungenerous, can be for the benefit of any person or any thing.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that nothing unjust can truly benefit anyone.

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