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I know you would take your vote in your hand and insist upon using it so as to secure your own rights.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “I know you would take your vote in your hand and insist upon using it so as to secure your own rights.”
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Sumner asserts that a colored citizen would actively use their vote to secure their rights.
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