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We say , therefore , that " uncompromising " policy is not to be measured by absolute justice , but by practical amelioration of the slave's condition . Amelioration as fast as you can get it — absolute justice as ...
We say , therefore , that " uncompromising " policy is not to be measured by absolute justice , but by practical amelioration of the slave's condition . Amelioration as fast as you can get it — absolute justice as ...
Page 145
... until at last , divided , be- wildered , confounded , as this twenty millions were , we have all of us fused into one idea , that the Union meant justice - shall mean justice - owns down to the Gulf , and we will have it .
... until at last , divided , be- wildered , confounded , as this twenty millions were , we have all of us fused into one idea , that the Union meant justice - shall mean justice - owns down to the Gulf , and we will have it .
Page 194
I defy a man to make an argument against the laws of God that will hold water . Any man trying to dodge justice will answer himself . How will you make the newspapers and the public men 194 WENDELL PHILLIPS.
I defy a man to make an argument against the laws of God that will hold water . Any man trying to dodge justice will answer himself . How will you make the newspapers and the public men 194 WENDELL PHILLIPS.
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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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