Henry George Quotes
If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.
George, Henry. Progress and Poverty. W. M. Hinton & Co., 1879, p. 433.
Many people who were opposed to slavery, were not willing to take any draconian steps to end or curtail the practice as every proposal had implications for the existing institutions in the country and the society. Starting with the Union itself and the Congress and the government, churches, associations, states, even families were irrevocably split.
This was well before Emancipation was adopted by President Lincoln. Blair a Virginian who was in favor of freeing all slaves and relocating them back in Africa and advised Lincoln of such. He was the first Virginian to actually free his slaves. See {594983} .
One of the arguments against Negro emancipation from slavery was that they were not prepared for freedom. This famous quote countered that argument. Ironically, a similar argument was made years later with respect to Women’s Suffrage. It was argued that women first had to learn about voting and politics. This quotation was again used by the suffragettes long after Heyrick’s death.
Liberia was founded by freed American slaves.
Henry George was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, the belief that people should own the value they produce themselves, but that the economic value derived from land (including natural resources) should belong equally to all members of society. He argued that a single tax on land would create a more productive, more just society.
