"Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and……" — Wendell Phillips
"Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something."
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77 Quotes by Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips has 77 quotes on this site.
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The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no…
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To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Revolutions never go backwards.
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No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people…
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Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention,…
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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole…
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There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to…
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Revolutions are not made, they come.
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More Civil Disobedience Quotes
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
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Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for…
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I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has…
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I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.
— Ellen Page
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I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people…
— Edward James Olmos
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I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand…
— Larry Klayman
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Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition…
— Aaron Swartz
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Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?
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My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
— Martin Sheen
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There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking…
— Hannah Arendt
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I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind,…
— Joan Baez
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