Wendell Phillips

Wendell Phillips ( born November 29, 1811 in Boston, Massachusetts, † February 2, 1884 ) was an American abolitionist and politician.

Wendell Phillips William Lloyd Garrison was next to one of the major abolitionists ( anti-slavery ) in New England and fought as one of the greatest orators of the Northern states for the abolition of slavery in the United States.

In 1831 he graduated from the Harvard University. He reached in 1833 a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1834 and opened a law firm in Boston. From 1836 Phillips devoted to the fight against slavery and worked as a writer for the 1831 founded by William Lloyd Garrison newspaper " Liberator ." Phillips was a co-founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Phillips continued after the American Civil War and for women's suffrage and the abolition of the death penalty. In 1870, he joined the gubernatorial election in Massachusetts as a candidate of the short-lived Labor Reform Party on. With 14.6 percent of the vote, he finished third behind the victorious Republican William Claflin and Democrat John Quincy Adams II, he was a candidate for this office again in 1877, this time for the Greenback party, but achieved no significant result.

His father was the first mayor of Boston, John Phillips.

Quotes by Wendell Phillips

• Religious differences generate more controversy as a political party differences.
• To as good as our fathers we must be better, Immitation is not a form of succession.