Wendell Phillips
Sign in to saveAmerican abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 36
Top works
- Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
- Letters of Lydia Maria Child
- Letters of Lydia Maria Child, by Lydia Maria Child and John Greenleaf Whittier
- Woman's Rights Tracts
- Philosophy of the Abolition Movement
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5 total works indexed
- The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment
· 2005 · cited 21,944x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,266x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
- Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD
· 2005 · cited 15,848x
- Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions
· 2006 · cited 14,806x
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Quotes
- “Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.”
- “Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor" — infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.”
- “Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.”
- “What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind, and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.”
- “The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.”
- “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty — power is ever stealing from the many to the few…. The hand entrusted with power becomes … the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted Agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Phillips
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Boston
- Place of death
- Boston
- Father
- John Phillips
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Harvard College
- Political party
- Greenback Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Wendell Phillips by Brady.jpg
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- Commons category
- Wendell Phillips
- date of birth
- 1811-11-29
- date of death
- 1884-02-02
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- Wendell Phillips
- writing language
- English language
- place of burial
- Granary Burying Ground
- name in native language
- Wendell Phillips
- P12749
- Oxypetalum
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