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Surely the wrong is not less wrong because gigantic; the evil is not less evil because immeasurable; nor can the duty of perpetual warfare with wrong and evil be in this instance suspended.
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Sumner asserts that the magnitude of the wrong of slavery does not diminish the moral obligation to fight against it.
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