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In issuing this edition of Wendell Phillips's work , it seems desirable to underscore what is spelled out in the following Introduction , and elsewhere : the special nature of Phillips's writing . It is literature , pre- cisely as is ...
In issuing this edition of Wendell Phillips's work , it seems desirable to underscore what is spelled out in the following Introduction , and elsewhere : the special nature of Phillips's writing . It is literature , pre- cisely as is ...
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Nature's live growths crowd out and rive dead matter . Ideas strangle statutes . Pulse beats wear down granite , whether piled in jails or capitols . The people's hearts are the only title deeds , after all .
Nature's live growths crowd out and rive dead matter . Ideas strangle statutes . Pulse beats wear down granite , whether piled in jails or capitols . The people's hearts are the only title deeds , after all .
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We have only human nature to work with , and we cannot raise it up to the level of angels . We shall never get beyond the sphere of human selfish- ness , but we can lift this human nature up to a higher level , if we can but remove the ...
We have only human nature to work with , and we cannot raise it up to the level of angels . We shall never get beyond the sphere of human selfish- ness , but we can lift this human nature up to a higher level , if we can but remove the ...
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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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