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Be it our function to teach them the duty and necessity of Equal Rights.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of educating others about the necessity of equal rights.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
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