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Wendell Phillips, Abolitionist Orator: "Garrison gained his most important associate, and the abolitionist movement gained its greatest orator. Reviewing the texts of his antislavery speeches, Korngold noted that 'Ninety per cent of the words he uses are two syllables or less. His average sentence is composed of twenty-three words and conveys the thought it was meant to convey as unmistakably as a rifleshot.'"