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The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.
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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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 Puritan did not stop to think he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
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What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
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