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If I am asked--as advocates of Peace are often asked--whether a robber, a pirate, a mob, may be resisted by the sacrifice of life, I answer, that they may be so resisted,--mournfully, necessarily.
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Sumner acknowledges the difficult moral dilemma of resisting violence even at the cost of life.
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