Wendell Phillips Quotes

• Some doubt the courage of the Negro. Go to Haiti and stand on those fifty thousand graves of the best soldiers France ever had, and ask them what they think of the Negro’s sword.

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• Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

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• Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

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• Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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• What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

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• Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

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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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• 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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• Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

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• Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle – that of obedience to their superiors.

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• What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action

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• Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

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• Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

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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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• Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

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• We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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• Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

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• Responsibility educates.

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• The keener the want the lustier the growth.

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• If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

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Wendell Phillips (38)

Birth:	29th November, 1811
Death:	2nd February, 1884
Nationality:	-
Profession:	Abolitionist, Lawyer

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