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God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice that he guarantees shall be always expediency.
Wendell Phillips
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Wendell Phillips
Age: 72 †
Born: 1811
Born: November 29
Died: 1884
Died: February 2
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.
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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
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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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The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.
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Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
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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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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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