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The right of petition we had thought as firmly fixed in the soil of America as the Saxon race which brought it here . It was the breath of life during our colonial history , and is recognized on every page of our history since as the ...
The right of petition we had thought as firmly fixed in the soil of America as the Saxon race which brought it here . It was the breath of life during our colonial history , and is recognized on every page of our history since as the ...
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Some thought women should not make public appearances : this would harm their status as women ( it was thought ) and drive off hordes of Northerners who abominated slavery . Some thought the churches ought not to be harshly criticized ...
Some thought women should not make public appearances : this would harm their status as women ( it was thought ) and drive off hordes of Northerners who abominated slavery . Some thought the churches ought not to be harshly criticized ...
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Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms . ... the timidity of the Old World , when we think of the people ; we shrink back , trying to save ourselves from the inevitable might of the thoughts of the millions .
Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms . ... the timidity of the Old World , when we think of the people ; we shrink back , trying to save ourselves from the inevitable might of the thoughts of the millions .
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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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