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
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.
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.
creed fanaticism table today trite week
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after
church government traitor
Write on my gravestone: ''Infidel, Traitor.''--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
given jewel knowledge rich seldom
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
american-activist power
Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
forgiving boxes ballots
Never forgive at the ballot box!
compete forgets himself late men proud
How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of late forgets himself into immortality
caring care pulpit
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress
inspirational destiny nations
On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
tables today tomorrow
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
aristocracy
Aristocracy is always cruel.
morning men government
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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.