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.

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Wendell Phillips was a 19th-century American abolitionist and advocate. Wendell Phillips was an American abolitionist, labor reformer, temperance activist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney. Read more on Wikipedia →

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