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So also, when the Rebellion was suppressed, he insisted always upon those Equal Rights for All, without which the Declaration of Independence is an unperformed promise, and our nation a political bankrupt.
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Sumner insists on the necessity of equal rights as a fulfillment of the nation's founding promises.
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