Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, a…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.84, Penguin
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