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Citizenship is defined, and protection is assured at least in what are called civil rights.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of civil rights in defining citizenship and ensuring protection under the law.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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