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1811–1884 United States
Wendell Phillips (November 29, 1811 – February 2, 1884), born in Boston, Massachusetts, was an American abolitionist, advocate of Native American rights, and orator.
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Liberty knows nothing but victories.
One on God's side is a majority.
[R]aces love to be judged in two ways—by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.
The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.
Revolutions never go backward.
Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress. Credit-Mobilier and money rings are not housed under thatched roofs: they flaunt at the Capitol. As usual in chemistry, the scum floats uppermost.
[T]he Negro race, instead of being that object of pity or contempt which we usually consider it, is entitled, judged by the facts of history, to a place close by the side of the Saxon.
Aristocracy is always cruel.
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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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.
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Be not dismayed by a defeat. What is defeat! Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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