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Page 96
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : Of course I do not expect - speaking from this platform , and to you— to say anything on the vital question of the hour which you have not already heard . But , when a great question divides the community ...
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : Of course I do not expect - speaking from this platform , and to you— to say anything on the vital question of the hour which you have not already heard . But , when a great question divides the community ...
Page 119
We were not sent into the world to plant cities , to make Unions or save them . Seeing that all men are born equal , our first civil duty is to see that our laws treat them so . The convulsion of this hour is the effort of the na- tion ...
We were not sent into the world to plant cities , to make Unions or save them . Seeing that all men are born equal , our first civil duty is to see that our laws treat them so . The convulsion of this hour is the effort of the na- tion ...
Page 193
When shut up an excessive number of hours in labor , the workman comes out but the fag end of a man , without brain to think of such subjects . Now , therefore , it is a fair division to give him eight hours for labor , eight hours for ...
When shut up an excessive number of hours in labor , the workman comes out but the fag end of a man , without brain to think of such subjects . Now , therefore , it is a fair division to give him eight hours for labor , eight hours 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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