Famous Quotes | When at last in a race a new...

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea—that conserves it; ideas only save races. - 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, Ideas, Philosopher, Race

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