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To ask these questions is humiliating; but it is clear there can be but one response.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “To ask these questions is humiliating; but it is clear there can be but one response.”
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Sumner acknowledges the discomfort of questioning societal norms but insists on the necessity of doing so.
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