It is not revolutionary on our part to ask a share in our Government. We are demanding it because it is in accord with American id...eals and absolutely essential to the establishment of true democracy. A democratic form of government is right or it is not right--it is either right that the people should be self- governed or that they should not. If it is not right, then we ought to know it; the whole people ought to know it. If it is right, then the whole people ought to have equal opportunities in self-government.... Some one asked Wendell Phillips if Christianity were not a failure and he replied, "It has not yet been tried." So we can say in regard to democracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must give Mr. Phillips the credit of being a clean, erect, and what was once called a consistent man. He at least is not respon...sible for slavery, nor for American Independence; for the hypocrisy and superstition of the Church, nor the timidity and selfishness of the State; nor for the indifference and willing ignorance of any. He stands so distinctly, so firmly, and so effectively alone, and one honest man is so much more than a host, that we cannot but feel that he does himself injustice when he reminds us of "the American Society, which he represents."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When, said Mr. Phillips, he communicated to a New Bedford audience, the other day, his purpose of writing his life, and telling hi...s name, and the name of his master, and the place he ran from, the murmur ran round the room, and was anxiously whispered by the sons of the Pilgrims, "He had better not!" and it was echoed under the shadow of the Concord monument, "He had better not!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh come home soon, I write to her. Go screw yourself, is her answer.... Now what is that, for Christian word? I hope she feeds on dried goose turd.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. Stumping it through England for seven years made Cobden a consummate debater. S...tumping it through New England for twice seven trained Wendell Phillips.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she... isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »