"Robert G. Ingersoll and Wendell Phillips were the two greatest orators of their time, and probably of all time. Their power sprang from their passion for freedom, for truth, for justice, for a world filled with light and with happy human beings. But for this divine passion neither would have scaled the sublime heights of immortal achievement. The sacred fire burned within them and when they were aroused it flashed from their eyes and rolled from their inspired lips in torrents of eloquence. Had Ingersoll and Phillips devoted their lives to the practice of law for pay the divine fire within them would have burned to ashes and they would have died in mediocrity."
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Eugene V. Debs, "The Secret of Efficient Expression" (1911)
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Wendell Phillips
1811 – 1884
US-amerikanischer Politiker und wichtiger Redner der [[w:Abolitionismus|Abolitionisten]]
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