Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 29. November 1811 |
Geburtsort | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Todesort | Boston |
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Beschreibung | Wendell Phillips (29. November 1811 - 2. Februar 1884) war ein amerikanischer Abolitionist, Fürsprecher der amerikanischen Ureinwohner, Redner und Anwalt. Laut George Lewis Ruffin, einem schwarzen Anwalt, wurde Phillips von vielen Schwarzen als "der einzige weiße Amerikaner, der völlig farbenblind und frei von Vorurteilen gegenüber Ethnien ist" angesehen. Einem anderen schwarzen Anwalt, Archibald Grimké, zufolge steht er als Führer der Abolitionisten noch vor William Lloyd Garrison und Charles Sumner. Von 1850 bis 1865 war er die "herausragende Figur" des amerikanischen Abolitionismus. |
Responsibility educates.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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.
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
