Who is Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips (November 29, 1811 – February 2, 1884) was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney.According to George Lewis Ruffin, a Black attorney, Phillips was seen by many Blacks as "the one white American wholly color-blind and free from race prejudice". According to another Black attorney, Archibald Grimké, as an abolitionist leader he is ahead of William Lloyd Garrison and Charles Sumner. From 1850 to 1865 he was the "preëminent figure" in American abolitionism.
Early life and education
Phillips was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 29, 1811, to Sarah Walley and John Phillips, a wealthy lawyer, politician, and philanthropist, who was the first mayor of Boston. He was a descendant of Reverend Geor...
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- Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
- Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
- Responsibility educates.
- What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
- The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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