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Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another but get something.
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My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
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The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
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Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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I think the first duty of society is justice.
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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down and the armed battalions of God march over him.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress
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Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
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Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
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It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world
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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
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