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Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a…
Quote byWendell Phillips · 1811–1884
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 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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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.
— Wendell Phillips
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