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
brain atmosphere agitation
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
lying ignorance giving
Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.
men thinking world
Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
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.
boredom criticism form
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
example speak authority
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
revolution backwards
Revolutions never go backwards.
law public-opinion behinds
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
mean past men
Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
wall men doe
There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does; there are certain principles which limit this right. Society has got the murderer within four walls; he never can do any more harm. Has society any need to take that man's life to protect itself? If any society has only the right that the individual has, she has no right to inflict the penalty of death, because she can effectually restrain the individual from ever again committing his offence.
revolution made
Revolutions are not made, they come.
god sides majority
One on God's side is a majority.
safety republic distrust
Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.
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.