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An incident like that, Sir, is worse at this moment than defeat in battle.
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Sumner asserts that incidents of racial injustice are more damaging than military defeat, emphasizing their impact on morale.
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More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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