Political Quotes

On the record
Agassiz, is it right to expect him to give his invaluable services without compensation?
Said by
Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner questions the expectation that a respected professor should work without pay, highlighting issues of fairness.

Share

More from Charles Sumner

It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.

gutenberg.org

Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.

gutenberg.org

Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.

gutenberg.org

Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation