#wendell phillips

[cureattroy]

inspired by @dustzvacuumcleaner 's meme

[garadinervi]

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, written by Himself, Preface by William Lloyd Garrison, Prefatory letter by Wendell Phillips, Published at the Anti-Slavery Office, Boston, MA, 1845 [Sevier Collection, Vanderbilt University Special Collections, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN]

[princetonarchives]

Wendell Phillips was one of America's most prominent abolitionists, but he also advocated for women's rights, Native American civil rights, labor rights, and temperance. On February 14, 1874, Princeton's Student Lecture Association sponsored a talk by Phillips on "Temperance, Labor & Woman."

Image: Wendell Phillips, Speeches, Lectures, and Letters (Boston: J. Redpath, 1863).

[ludovicus-phytalmios]

abolitionist

and CFA（young）

[nightbringer24]

It is a mistake to call him an insurrectionist. He opposed the authority of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Commonwealth of Virginia!—there is no such thing. There is no civil society, no government; nor can such exist except on the basis of impartial equal submission of its citizens—by a performance of the duty of rendering justice between God and man. The government that refuses this is none but a pirate ship. Virginia herself is to-day only a chronic insurrection. I mean exactly what I say—I consider well my words—and she is a pirate ship. John Brown sails with letters of marque from God and Justice against every pirate he meets. He has twice as much right to hang Governor Wise as Governor Wise has to hang him.

American Abolitionist Wendell Phillips, in the New York Herald the day before the hanging of John Brown, December 1st 1859.

[culturevulturette]

[elegantzombielite]

"Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor' — infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people."

Wendell Phillips, human rights activist and attorney (29th November 1811-1884)

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