There is another power, stronger than any individual arm, which I invoke: I mean that irresistible Public Opinion, inspired by love of God and man, which, without violence or noise, gently as the operations of Nature, makes and unmakes laws.
Sumner invokes the power of public opinion as a force for justice, suggesting it can enact change without violence.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
Other voices in this conversation
