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Wendell Phillips was a distinguished American lawyer, abolitionist, and orator. Born on November 29, 1811, he was a leading figure in the abolitionist movement and a vocal opponent of slavery. Known for his eloquent speeches and advocacy for civil rights, Phillips passed away on February 2, 1884.

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Famous Wendell Phillips Quotes

“It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world”

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“Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.”

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“The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.”

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“Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.”

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“Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.”

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.”

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“Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.”

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Book:Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom

Source: Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom

“Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.”

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“Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.”

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Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.”

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Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters