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It is with humiliation that I am forced to insist upon the same equality in other public institutions of learning and science,--also in churches, and in the last resting-places of the dead.
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Sumner expresses his dismay at the lack of equality in educational institutions and other public spaces, calling for reform.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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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