"Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake." — Wendell Phillips — — — #WendellPhillips #quote #quotes #progress #earned #difficulties #success #innovation #development

“I believe in moral suasion. The age of bullets is over. The age of ideas is come. I think that is the rule of our age…I believe in it—in public opinion…Yet, let me say, in passing, I think you can make a better use of iron than forging it into chains. If you must have the metal, put it into Sharps rifles. It is a great deal better used that way than in fetters; types are better than bullets, but bullets a thousand times rather than a clumsy statue of a mock great man, for hypocrites to kneel down and worship in a Statehouse yard.”
-Wendell Phillips
Nov. 1, 1859, two weeks after John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry

#JohnBrown #WendellPhillips #Abolition

“I believe in moral suasion. The age of bullets is over. The age of ideas is come. I think that is the rule of our age…I believe in it—in public opinion…Yet, let me say, in passing, I think you can make a better use of iron than forging it into chains. If you must have the metal, put it into Sharps rifles. It is a great deal better used that way than in fetters; types are better than bullets, but bullets a thousand times rather than a clumsy statue of a mock great man, for hypocrites to kneel down and worship in a Statehouse yard.”
-Wendell Phillips
Nov. 1, 1859, two weeks after John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry

#JohnBrown #WendellPhillips #Abolition