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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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Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!
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Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
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Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.
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Every government is always growing corrupt.
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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.
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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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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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