All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Emancipation”

“Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.”
“Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.”
“We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.”
“We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.”
“It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.”
“It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.”

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