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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Massachusetts
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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.
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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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Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.
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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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I think the first duty of society is justice.
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Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.
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Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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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 Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
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