in the public garden in boston there's a statue for charles sumner. all it says is sumner. there's no explanation. to explanation of who he was. no explanation who the sculpture was. most people, i think, probably probably 1 out of 1,000 out of boston has no idea who he was. if they have any thought is that he built the sumner tunnel in boston which he did not. charles sumner went to paris because he wanted to attend lectures at the sorbonne. and he attended lectures of all kinds. and he took notes. he crammed in french before he started his lecture attendance and he became quite fluent in it and he took notes on everything. everything imaginable and one day he -- his mind began to strain a little because the professor was running on a little longer than he expected. so he began looking around at the other students in the hall. the hall is still there, by the way. and of there's close to 1,000 students in the hall and he noticed that the black students were treated as if everyone else. they talked the same as everyone else. they dressed the same as everyone else and they ha