Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom |
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Page xi
This is as it should be , for it would be absurd to claim Phillips as a partner without also drawing from the living marrow of Emer- son's writings . A great civil rights movement will bring to the fore great men who can do more than ...
This is as it should be , for it would be absurd to claim Phillips as a partner without also drawing from the living marrow of Emer- son's writings . A great civil rights movement will bring to the fore great men who can do more than ...
Page 42
We seek only to be honest men , and speak the same of the dead as of the living . If the grave that hides their bodies could swallow also the evil they have done and the example they leave , we might enjoy at least the luxury of ...
We seek only to be honest men , and speak the same of the dead as of the living . If the grave that hides their bodies could swallow also the evil they have done and the example they leave , we might enjoy at least the luxury of ...
Page 207
quite certain that capital — the child of artificial laws , the product of society , the mere growth of social life — has a right to only an equal burden with labor , the living spring ? We doubt it so much that we think we have ...
quite certain that capital — the child of artificial laws , the product of society , the mere growth of social life — has a right to only an equal burden with labor , the living spring ? We doubt it so much that we think we have ...
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