More - Wendell Phillips Quotes

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality

Wendell Phillips

 

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Wendell Phillips

 American Activist Government

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Wendell Phillips

 American Activist

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

Wendell Phillips

 America American Activist

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people

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Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

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To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening

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 Expression

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Wendell Phillips

 American Activist

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

Wendell Phillips

 

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

Wendell Phillips

 American Activist