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Reformer, Kämpfer gegen die Sklaverei (USA, 1811 - 1884).

Wendell Phillips · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Wendell Phillips wäre heute 212 Jahre, 4 Monate, 20 Tage oder 77.573 Tage alt.

Geboren am 29.11.1811 in Boston
Gestorben am 02.02.1884 in Boston
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• Ein einziger Mensch auf Gottes Seite ergibt bereits eine Majorität.
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• Ewige Wachsamkeit ist der Preis der Freiheit.
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• Jeder Fortschritt, den die Welt gemacht hat, ist von Schafott zu Schafott, von Scheiterhaufen zu Scheiterhaufen gewesen.
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• Wenn du ein Ankläger werden willst, mußt du erst einen großen Fall haben.

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• Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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• Commonsense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

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• Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

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• I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday.

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• 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 memeber 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.

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• Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.

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• Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

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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 beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

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• Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want, the lustier the growth.

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• What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

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