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Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

Wendell Phillips

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
Christianity
Battle
Prayer
Religion
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Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
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Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
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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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Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.
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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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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.
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How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
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The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
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The Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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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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Revolutions never go backwards.
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Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
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The heart is the best logician.
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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.
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