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It is as true in the life of nations as in the life of individuals, that, if you would have equity, you must do equity; but the great equity which we must do is found in justice to an oppressed race.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It is as true in the life of nations as in the life of individuals, that, if you would have equity, you must do equity…”
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Sumner asserts that nations must practice equity to achieve true justice for oppressed races.
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