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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.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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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 press is the exclusive literature of the million to them it is literature, church, and college.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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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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Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.
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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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It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.
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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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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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