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Brought up in the strictest reverence for church organizations , his first effort was to enlist the clergymen of Boston in the support of his views . On their aid he counted confidently in his effort to preach im- mediate repentance of ...
Brought up in the strictest reverence for church organizations , his first effort was to enlist the clergymen of Boston in the support of his views . On their aid he counted confidently in his effort to preach im- mediate repentance of ...
Page 87
Incessant eulogy ; but not a word of one effort to lift the yoke of cruel or unequal legislation from the neck of its victim ; not one attempt to make the code of his country wiser , purer , better ; not one effort to bless his times or ...
Incessant eulogy ; but not a word of one effort to lift the yoke of cruel or unequal legislation from the neck of its victim ; not one attempt to make the code of his country wiser , purer , better ; not one effort to bless his times or ...
Page 164
I am about to compare and weigh races ; indeed , I am engaged tonight in what you will think the absurd effort to con- vince you that the Negro race , instead of being that object of pity or contempt which we usually consider it ...
I am about to compare and weigh races ; indeed , I am engaged tonight in what you will think the absurd effort to con- vince you that the Negro race , instead of being that object of pity or contempt which we usually consider it ...
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| 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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