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
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.
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.
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.
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.