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We abjure nobility of all kinds; but here is a nobility of the skin.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “We abjure nobility of all kinds; but here is a nobility of the skin.”
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He critiques the notion of nobility based on skin color, equating it to a form of caste.
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