“Ralph Waldo Emerson, who a for along time had been prejudiced against him, in 1844 wrote in his Journal: ‘The haters of Garrison have lived to rejoice in that grand world movement which, every age or two, casts out so masterly an agent for good. I cannot speak of the gentleman without respect.’ ” Found in Portrait of America, by Stephen B. Oates, in VIII, by Robert V. Remini
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