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Give the masses nothing to do , and they will topple down thrones and cut throats ; give them the government , as here , and they will make pulpits useless and col- leges an impertinence . It is the best part of literature , too , for ...
Give the masses nothing to do , and they will topple down thrones and cut throats ; give them the government , as here , and they will make pulpits useless and col- leges an impertinence . It is the best part of literature , too , for ...
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Where the government rests on the people , its administrators are bound to give time to the laborers to understand the theory of government . When shut up an excessive number of hours in labor , the workman comes out but the fag end of ...
Where the government rests on the people , its administrators are bound to give time to the laborers to understand the theory of government . When shut up an excessive number of hours in labor , the workman comes out but the fag end of ...
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I don't want the sub- ject made political in a bad sense of the word , but in a higher sense . When men have wrongs to complain of , they should go to the ballot box and right them . I may be asked if I would give universal suffrage to ...
I don't want the sub- ject made political in a bad sense of the word , but in a higher sense . When men have wrongs to complain of , they should go to the ballot box and right them . I may be asked if I would give universal suffrage to ...
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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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