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Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.

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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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Dragging
Preach
Gained
Print
Train
Freedom
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To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.
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Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
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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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Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.
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Hearts are stronger than swords.
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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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Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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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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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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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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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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Every government is always growing corrupt.
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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
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I think the first duty of society is justice.
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Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
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The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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