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The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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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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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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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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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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Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
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Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
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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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