55 ordspråk av Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips föddes den
November 29th 1811 och dog den 2 February
1884 - whose eloquence helped fire the antislavery cause during the period leading up to the American Civil War.
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Revolutions are not made. They come.
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Revolutions never go backward.
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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth
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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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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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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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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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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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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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