The necessity is manifest every day in the outrages to which the colored race are exposed, not only in travel and at hotels, but still more in the children of their homes, who are shut out from those schools where they ought to receive practically, as well as by lesson, the great duty of Equality.
Sumner highlights the daily injustices faced by the colored race, particularly in education and public accommodations.
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As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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