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
ideas gossip mind
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
mind littles easy
Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.
mind despair care
Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.
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.