Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Slavery
category
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. – Thomas Jefferson
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. – Maria Weston Chapman
I doubt whether Cromwell or Milton could have rivaled [William Lloyd] Garrison in this field of quotation; and the power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. – John Jay Chapman
Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance. – Henry David Thoreau
The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA. – Marion Jones
