Charles Sumner: “The whole dogma of passive obedience must be rejected, whatever guise it assumes, under whatever alias it…”

“The whole dogma of passive obedience must be rejected, whatever guise it assumes, under whatever alias it skulks,--whether in tyrannical usurpations of king, parliament, or judicial tribunal,--whether in exploded theories of Sir Robert Filmer, or rampant assumptions of the Fugitive Slave Act.”