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Page 73
It is a very easy thing to sit down and read the history ; it is a very easy thing to imagine what we would have done — it is a very different thing to strike the first blow . It is a very hard thing to spring out of the ranks of common ...
It is a very easy thing to sit down and read the history ; it is a very easy thing to imagine what we would have done — it is a very different thing to strike the first blow . It is a very hard thing to spring out of the ranks of common ...
Page 74
It is right , because every colored man has but one thing to remember in life , and that is SLAVERY . All races are one - they are a unit . The white race is a unit , the Caucasian race is a unit , the black race is a unit - one .
It is right , because every colored man has but one thing to remember in life , and that is SLAVERY . All races are one - they are a unit . The white race is a unit , the Caucasian race is a unit , the black race is a unit - one .
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I said to him , " Short hours , better education , co - operation in the end , and in the meantime a po- litical movement that will concentrate the thought of the country upon this thing . " Now , here I take issue with the best critic ...
I said to him , " Short hours , better education , co - operation in the end , and in the meantime a po- litical movement that will concentrate the thought of the country upon this thing . " Now , here I take issue with the best critic ...
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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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