Charles Sumner: “Dives and Lazarus are equal in the sight of God: they must be equal in…”

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Dives and Lazarus are equal in the sight of God: they must be equal in the sight of all human institutions.

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Sumner uses the biblical story of Dives and Lazarus to illustrate the principle of equality before God and society.

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Charles Sumner: “Dives and Lazarus are equal in the sight of God: they must be equal in the sight of all human institutions.”