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If you hesitate to pass this bill for the blacks, then pass it for the whites.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If you hesitate to pass this bill for the blacks, then pass it for the whites.”
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Sumner challenges lawmakers to support the bill for the sake of both blacks and whites.
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