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
voice together goes-on
Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.
fighting men slave
Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!
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.
horse political bones
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
political fever revolution
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
praise knows know-how
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
ideas gossip mind
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
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.
community liberty doe
The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
revolution backwards
Revolutions never go backwards.
example speak authority
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
boredom criticism form
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
writing use literature
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.