ThursdaySep 17, 2026
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Wendell Phillips (29 November 1811 - 2 February 1884) was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, and orator.
Christianity is a battle, not a dream.
Aristocracy is always cruel.
Revolutions never go backward.
Revolutions are not made; they come.
Responsibility educates.
One on God's side is a majority.
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.
The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
No matter whose the lips that would speak, they must be free and ungagged. The community which dares not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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