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But is it less wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea of Inequality of Rights founded on race or color?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “But is it less wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea of Inequality of Rights founded on race or color?”
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Sumner questions the morality of including racial inequality in the Constitution.
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