Charles Sumner: “Child of indifference, of ignorance, of prejudice, of selfishness, it seeks to maintain things precisely as they are…”

“Child of indifference, of ignorance, of prejudice, of selfishness, it seeks to maintain things precisely as they are, deprecates every change, and, disregarding the transitory condition of all that is human, blindly prays for the perpetuity of existing institutions.”