The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. - Charles Sumner

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It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

Charles Sumner

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

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Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

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By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

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The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

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The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

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