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Charles Sumner: “The enormous means, thus released from destructive industry and purposes of hate, will be appropriated to productive…”

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The enormous means, thus released from destructive industry and purposes of hate, will be appropriated to productive industry and purposes of beneficence.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner envisions redirecting resources from war to productive and benevolent endeavors.

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