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It was a noble lesson which the sisters and mothers of that time set the women of the present day -I hope they will follow it . There was another charge brought against them : it was that they had no reverence for dignitaries .
It was a noble lesson which the sisters and mothers of that time set the women of the present day -I hope they will follow it . There was another charge brought against them : it was that they had no reverence for dignitaries .
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There , at least , we might hope to find men able to look behind circumstances to principles . Who does not recollect the astonishment - for the first feeling was rather astonishment than indignation - with which we heard that the door ...
There , at least , we might hope to find men able to look behind circumstances to principles . Who does not recollect the astonishment - for the first feeling was rather astonishment than indignation - with which we heard that the door ...
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Hope ! there is hope everywhere . It is only the universal history : Right forever on the scaffold , Wrong forever on the throne ; But that scaffold sways the future , and behind the dim unknown Standeth ...
Hope ! there is hope everywhere . It is only the universal history : Right forever on the scaffold , Wrong forever on the throne ; But that scaffold sways the future , and behind the dim unknown Standeth ...
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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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