Charles Sumner: “Victory over fellow-citizens should be known only in the rights it…”

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Victory over fellow-citizens should be known only in the rights it assures; nor should it be flaunted in the face of the vanquished.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner believes that victory should be associated with rights rather than humiliation of the defeated.

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