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It has been met and conquered at the ballot-box and in the halls of our local and general Legislatures, and why should it not receive the same fate in our school-rooms?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner argues that if prejudice can be overcome in politics, it should also be eradicated in education.

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