Charles Sumner: “How vain to condemn the petty monopoly of commerce, while allowing…”

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How vain to condemn the petty monopoly of commerce, while allowing this vast, all-embracing monopoly of Human Rights!

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Sumner points out the hypocrisy of condemning small commercial monopolies while ignoring larger violations of human rights.

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Charles Sumner: “How vain to condemn the petty monopoly of commerce, while allowing this vast, all-embracing monopoly of Human Rights!”