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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.
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The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.
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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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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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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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Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
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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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It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world
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Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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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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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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The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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