Saturday, February 2, 2008
Wendell Phillips died today – 124 years ago
U.S. abolitionist Wendell Phillips was born on November 29, 1811 in Baltimore, Maryland or Boston, Massachusetts. He said, “Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor'; infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people." [He didn’t mince words, did he?]... Mr. Phillips died on February 2, 1884 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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