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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.

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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
Jurist
Lawyer
Politician
Boston
Massachusetts
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Yesterday
Belief
Today
Believe
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Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.
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The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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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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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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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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Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
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