Walter Lippmann Quotes
Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.
Lippmann, Walter. A Preface to Politics. Mitchell Kennerley, 1913, p. 278.
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} .
Walter Lippmann was an American writer, reporter and political commentator. With a career spanning 60 years he is famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War, coining the term "stereotype" in the modern psychological meaning, as well as critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books, most notably his 1922 book Public Opinion.
