"Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.”

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”

“The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.”

“If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.”

“Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive their free[dom] . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of Orphan and other poor Children. And I do hereby expressly forbid the Sale, or transportation out of the said Commonwealth, of any Slave I may die possessed of, under any pretence whatsoever.”

“In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.”

“Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.”

“If you worry more for others' beliefs, then you will be their slave.”

“A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.”