Charles Sumner: “It is hard even to think of it without impatience, to speak of it…”

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It is hard even to think of it without impatience, to speak of it without denouncing it as unworthy of human head or human heart.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses his frustration and moral outrage at the injustices he observes in society.

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Charles Sumner: “It is hard even to think of it without impatience, to speak of it without denouncing it as unworthy of human head or…”