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
men law feet
The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.
law public-opinion behinds
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
men law aggravation
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
law void should
Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.
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.