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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.

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
Every
Traitor
People
Treason
Compromise
Wrong
Oppresses
Church
Gravestone
Write
Infidel
Government
Compromises
Writing
Infidelity

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