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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.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Boston
Massachusetts
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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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.
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The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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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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God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
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