On the record
By solemn vote, you have recorded yourselves in favor of Human Rights, and have established them here at the National Capital.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner emphasizes the importance of human rights in the legislative process at the National Capital.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Other voices in this conversation
