Thread by @blackrepublican

"Say, sir, in your madness, that you own the sun, stars, moon; but do not say that you own a man, endowed with a soul."

- Charles Sumner #bhm

A Radical Republican who fought White Supremacy; Sen. Charles Sumner was beaten for protecting black people on the Senate floor.

"Our people have come to this (Civil War) on the question of slavery. I am willing, in that address to rest it upon that question. I think it is the great central point from which we are now proceeding, and I am not willing to divert the public attention from it." Laurence Keitt

"The anti-slavery party contends that slavery is wrong in itself, and the government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South contend that slavery is right, and that this is a confederate republic of sovereign states."

"Keitt a conservative Democrat resigned his seat after the beating of Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor. He beat Charles Sumner, because he was a Radical Republican who advocated the "eradication of slavery, without compromise".

"Say, sir, in your madness, that you own the sun, stars, moon; but do not say that you own a man, endowed with a soul."

-- Charles Sumner #bhm