Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Slavery

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Men, Slavery, Monkeys

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.295, Harvard University Press

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thinking, Slavery, Slave

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Slavery, Dull

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1233, Delphi Classics

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kings, Women, Slavery

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.349, Bantam Classics

America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

America, Slavery

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1844). “An Address Delivered in the Court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844: On the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies”, p.33

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thinking, Community, Slavery

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2995, Delphi Classics