On the record
Because the victims are numerous, therefore we are to fold our hands and let the sacrifice proceed.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner challenges the notion of inaction due to the number of victims affected by a situation.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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.
Other voices in this conversation
