Will Phillips
Will Phillips
Will Phillipsis an American student from West Fork, Arkansas. At the age of ten, while a fifth grader at West Fork Elementary School in 2009, Phillips gained international attention for his refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of social-political reasons...
government growing
Every government is always growing corrupt.
past heritage harvest
The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
education children struggle
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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.
stronger prejudice humans
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.
past growth revolution
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
mean labour-movement people
The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
animal bravery accountability
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
truth blood forever
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
education sports victory-and-defeat
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
work
I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.
book books children valued war women
Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.
trying
Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.
adult bind both business divided divorced kids though
That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.