Charles Sumner: “Every inhabitant of America is, de facto as well as de jure, equal, in his essential, inseparable rights of the…”

“Every inhabitant of America is, de facto as well as de jure, equal, in his essential, inseparable rights of the individual, to any other individual,--is, in these rights, independent of any power that any other can assume over him, over his labor, or his property.”