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Charles Sumner: “Shall a people endure political oppression, or the denial of freedom, without resistance?”

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Shall a people endure political oppression, or the denial of freedom, without resistance?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner questions the morality of enduring political oppression without resistance.

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