Wendell Phillips, (1811 - 1884) Quotes

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

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

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944 The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.

We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, and enslaves the workingman.

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

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.