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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
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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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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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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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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 keener the want the lustier the growth.
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You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
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