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Charles Sumner: “This firmness in the right, as he saw it, was an anchor which held always.”

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This firmness in the right, as he saw it, was an anchor which held always.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner emphasizes the importance of steadfastness in one's moral beliefs.

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