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 two political
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
horse political bones
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
political fever revolution
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
political progress revolution
Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.
political other-half politics
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
rights government political
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
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.