Will Phillips
Will Phillips
Will Phillipsis an American student from West Fork, Arkansas. At the age of ten, while a fifth grader at West Fork Elementary School in 2009, Phillips gained international attention for his refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of social-political reasons...
justice rate ifs
Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
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.
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.
growth want
The keener the want the lustier the growth.
world action puritan
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
tables today tomorrow
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
writing government people
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
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.
political fever revolution
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.