Famous Quotes | There is a blessed necessity by...

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Address Delivered in Concord on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies, August 1, 1884,” Miscellanies (1883, repr. 1903).

Categories: Essayist, Philosopher, Progress

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