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Such a cause can be maintained only by the practical subversion of all rights.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Such a cause can be maintained only by the practical subversion of all rights.”
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Sumner asserts that a just cause cannot be upheld without undermining fundamental rights.
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