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.

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

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

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

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

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

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

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

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