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If a man speaks for his own gratifica- tion , he may be as " harsh " as he pleases ; but if he speaks for the down- trodden and oppressed , he must be content to put a curb upon the tongue of holiest passion , and speak only as harshly ...
If a man speaks for his own gratifica- tion , he may be as " harsh " as he pleases ; but if he speaks for the down- trodden and oppressed , he must be content to put a curb upon the tongue of holiest passion , and speak only as harshly ...
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Slavery has been made the ques- tion of this generation . To startle the South to madness , so that every step she takes , in her blindness , is one step more toward ruin , is much . This we have done . Witness Texas and the Fugitive ...
Slavery has been made the ques- tion of this generation . To startle the South to madness , so that every step she takes , in her blindness , is one step more toward ruin , is much . This we have done . Witness Texas and the Fugitive ...
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France has spots marked by the sublimest devo- tion ; but the pilgrimage and the Mecca of the man who believes and hopes for the human race is not to Paris .
France has spots marked by the sublimest devo- tion ; but the pilgrimage and the Mecca of the man who believes and hopes for the human race is not to Paris .
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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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