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31 Copy quote. Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder. David Graham Phillips. Fighting, Honor, Lawyer. David Graham Phillips (1905). “The Deluge”.
David Graham Phillips (October 31, 1867 – January 24, 1911) was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition. Early life [ edit ] Phillips was born in Madison, Indiana .
Biography of David Graham Phillips. David Graham Phillips (1867-1911), American novelist, journalist, and noted muckraker. Muckrakers were writers and journalists who in the early 20th century worked to expose the corruptions and abuses of power in politics, business, and various aspects of American life. Other famous muckrakers were Helen Hunt ...
2 quotes from David Graham Phillips: 'Our civilization overflows with charity—which is simply willingness to hand back to labor as generous gracious alms a small part of the loot from the just wages of labor. But of real help—just wages for honest labor—there is little, for real help would disarrange the system, would abolish the upper ...
Other articles where David Graham Phillips is discussed: muckraker: David Graham Phillips’s series “The Treason of the Senate” (Cosmopolitan, 1906), which inspired Pres. Roosevelt’s speech in 1906, was influential in leading to the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, which provided for popular senatorial elections.
Quote of the day. Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow. Adelbert von Chamisso. David Graham Phillips. Born:October 31, 1867. Died:January 24, 1911 (aged 43) Bio:David Graham Phillips was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition. Known for:
January 24, 1911. Genre. Literature & Fiction. edit data. David Graham Phillips was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition.Phillips was born in Madison, Indiana. After graduating from high school, Phillips entered Asbury College (now DePauw University) - following which he received a degree from Princeton University in 1887.
