Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillipswas an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth29 November 1811
CountryUnited States of America
Wendell Phillips quotes about
ideas numbers common-sense
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.
conquer ability
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
stars children giving-up
Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels!
forgiving boxes ballots
Never forgive at the ballot box!
fighting government ideas
Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.
law void should
Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
country new-york white
The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.
integrity party men
The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.
soldier victory liberty
Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
college church literature
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.
america rocks plymouth
Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.
political progress revolution
Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
moving progress world
The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.
father pieces cracks
To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.