Charles Sumner: “Surrounded by opportunity and trained with care, he grows into the type of Civilized Man; but, on the other hand, shut…”

“Surrounded by opportunity and trained with care, he grows into the type of Civilized Man; but, on the other hand, shut out from opportunity and neglected by the world, he remains stationary, always a man, entitled from his manhood to Equal Rights, but an example of inferiority, if not of degradation.”