Wendell Phillips: Judge

Wendell Phillips was American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer. Explore interesting quotes on judge.

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“What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind, and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.”

Wendell Phillips

Anti-Slavery Speech (January 1852) http://books.google.com/books?id=SCpVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA22 Published in The Works of Wendell Phillips, Street & Smith (1902), p. 22-23 <br class="br">1850s

“[R]aces love to be judged in two ways—by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.”

Wendell Phillips

1860s, Toussaint L'Ouverture (1861)

“[T]he Negro race, instead of being that object of pity or contempt which we usually consider it, is entitled, judged by the facts of history, to a place close by the side of the Saxon.”

Wendell Phillips

1860s, Toussaint L'Ouverture (1861)