Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Social Justice

• Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Keys, Justice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

• We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.545, Рипол Классик

• Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rights, Justice, Diversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.61, David R. Godine Publisher

• God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Kings, Tired

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.171, Harvard University Press

• Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Justice, Diversity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.8, Harvard University Press

• What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Men, Justice

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