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If it is wrong thus to degrade a single soul, if it is wrong thus to degrade you, Mr.
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In this statement, Sumner emphasizes the wrongness of degrading any individual, linking it to the broader issue of racial degradation.
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In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
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