On the record
The State is not humbled, when it receives the mandate of the Nation to do no wrong; nor can the Nation err, when it asserts everywhere within its borders the imperialism of Human Rights.
Source
gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The State is not humbled, when it receives the mandate of the Nation to do no wrong; nor can the Nation err, when it…”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner states that the nation is justified in enforcing human rights without diminishing the state's dignity.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Other voices in this conversation
