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Whilst we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of recognizing the equality of all races while maintaining the unity of the human species.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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