[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.
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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 →