Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
About Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillipswas 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”.
More quotes from Wendell Phillips
Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Aristocracy is always cruel.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
The heart is the best reflective thinker.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
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.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Christianity is a battle not a dream.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
One on God’s side is a majority.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
The keener the want the lustier the growth.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Responsibility educates.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
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.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
If there is anything in the universe that can’t stand discussion, let it crack.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)