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... iron ; and the last our government , a government of brains , a government of ideas . I believe in it - in public opinion . Yet , let me say , in passing , I think you can make a better use of iron than forging it into chains .
... iron ; and the last our government , a government of brains , a government of ideas . I believe in it - in public opinion . Yet , let me say , in passing , I think you can make a better use of iron than forging it into chains .
Page 205
They had better stay here sixteen hours out of the twenty - four ; it keeps them out of mis- chief better than any other place . As long as they work , they are not doing worse . I cannot attend to their houses .
They had better stay here sixteen hours out of the twenty - four ; it keeps them out of mis- chief better than any other place . As long as they work , they are not doing worse . I cannot attend to their houses .
Page 215
He came to our streets to wake that throb in his nature ; he grew a better man and a more chivalrous citizen when that thrill answered to the memory of the first signer of the Declaration . Gentlemen , these walls are the college for ...
He came to our streets to wake that throb in his nature ; he grew a better man and a more chivalrous citizen when that thrill answered to the memory of the first signer of the Declaration . Gentlemen , these walls are the college for ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom |
| Author | Wendell Phillips |
| Editor | Louis Filler |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Sep 2006 |
| ISBN | 0819127930, 9780819127938 |
| Length | 221 pages |
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