Abolition Quote by Nell Irvin Painter

“[Emerson] saw, in the beginning, no difference between abolitionism and the institutionalized religion he had rejected in the Divinity School address. They were both…

— Louis Menand

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.

— Howard Mumford Jones

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

— Howard Mumford Jones

Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be…

— John Burroughs

I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“It has come as a great revelation to me that abolitionist is different from the desire for racial equality. Color prejudice is at the…

— Sue Monk Kidd

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys…

— Bill Ayers

“Emerson loved the good and his life was a symphony of peace and harmony, Carlyle hated the bad, and his life was a record…

— Anonymous

“For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own…

— Elizabeth Peters

Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a…

— John Burroughs

Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.

— John Burroughs

He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

— John Muir