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At present nobody dares say, “I can sell them”; but the inn, the common conveyance, the theatre, the school, the scientific institute, the church, and the cemetery deny them the equal rights of Freedom.
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Sumner highlights the ongoing denial of equal rights in various societal institutions.
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