Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1803
CountryUnited States of America
Be not the slave of your own past.
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
Let us leave hurry to slaves.
The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.
America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.
If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.
Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The times are the masquerade of the eternities