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
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.
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.
independent thinking ninety-nine
It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.
tables today tomorrow
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
given seventies statesmen
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
progress world steps
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
praise knows know-how
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
political other-half politics
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
revolution backwards
Revolutions never go backwards.
example speak authority
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.