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If I can help them, I will; if I can save them from outrage, I must.
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Sumner emphasizes his obligation to help and protect those who are oppressed.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
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