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I call upon you now to obliterate the last of its footprints, and to banish the last of the hateful spirits in its train.
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Sumner calls for the eradication of lingering prejudices and injustices in society.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
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