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Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Wendell Phillips

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
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Boston
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