"Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back."
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Speech before the Massachusetts Antislavery Society (28 January 1852), published in Speeches, Letters and Lectures by Wendell Phillips (1884), p. 36
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Wendell Phillips
1811 β 1884
US-amerikanischer Politiker und wichtiger Redner der [[w:Abolitionismus|Abolitionisten]]
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