Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and FreedomUniversity Press of America, 1982 - 221 pages |
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Page 11
... duties , or to a cowardly unwillingness to perform what he knew well enough to be his duty . A superficial observer of the press and pulpit of that day would be inclined to consider it the result of ignorance , and lay the blame at the ...
... duties , or to a cowardly unwillingness to perform what he knew well enough to be his duty . A superficial observer of the press and pulpit of that day would be inclined to consider it the result of ignorance , and lay the blame at the ...
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... duty , when the pulpit prostituted itself , and when the press became a pack of hounds , the women of Boston , and a score or two of men , remem- bered Hancock and Adams , and did their duty . And if there are young people who hear me ...
... duty , when the pulpit prostituted itself , and when the press became a pack of hounds , the women of Boston , and a score or two of men , remem- bered Hancock and Adams , and did their duty . And if there are young people who hear me ...
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... duty is to see that our laws treat them so . The convulsion of this hour is the effort of the na- tion to do this , its duty , while politicians and parties strive to balk it of its purpose . The nation agonizes this hour to recognize ...
... duty is to see that our laws treat them so . The convulsion of this hour is the effort of the na- tion to do this , its duty , while politicians and parties strive to balk it of its purpose . The nation agonizes this hour to recognize ...
Contents
In Defense of Lovejoy | 1 |
The Boston Mob | 10 |
The Right of Petition | 23 |
Copyright | |
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