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

— Wendell Phillips

As quoted in the American Federation of Labor Bulletin, Vol. 8, Issues 11-18 (1926), p. 69

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