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Because the world inclines to those who have, therefore must we study to serve those who have not, that we may counteract the worldly tendency.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of serving the underprivileged to counteract societal inequalities.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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