Wendell Phillips
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"Wendell Phillips" was an American Abolitionism in the United States/abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer.

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What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. -Wendell Phillips
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. -Wendell Phillips
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

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Christianity is a battle, not a dream. -Wendell Phillips
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The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

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