Nell Irvin Painter Quotes

Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little uncomfortable with passionate people, but he was against slavery.

Nell Irvin Painter

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• Uncomfortable
• Abolition

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  Nell Irvin Painter
  • Intellectual
  • Passionate
  • Uncomfortable