Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
There is always safety in valor.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Courage." Society and Solitude. Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870, p. 248.
In general, Jefferson thought Blacks at that stage of their development inferior to whites but as this quotation shows he also thought them superior in certain traits. He also stated that their memories were superior to that of whites, but this observation we know now is not, like any of the others, a racial characteristic but is common in all oral cultures where human memory is the only way of preserving history, literature, procedures and much culture.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
