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Wendell Phillips

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American 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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Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1951-12-23

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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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