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Social groups owe each other only good will, respect, and mutual guarantees of liberty
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What William Graham Sumner actually said
- William Graham Sumner American sociologist (1840 to 1910)
In the prosecution of these chances we all owe to each other good-will, mutual respect, and mutual guarantees of liberty and security. Beyond this nothing can be affirmed as a duty of one group to another in a free state.
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↗What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)gutenberg.org
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