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James Russell Lowell

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Total quotes: 2

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James Russell Lowell

Birthname

AKA: James Lowell

Birthday: February 22, 1819

Death: August 12, 1891

Educated At: Harvard University, Harvard Law School

Political Parties: Republican Party

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Essayist, Journalist, Diplomat, Literary Critic, Writer

Total quotes: 2

“three-fifths of perfect manhood would be a high average even among white men”

— James Russell Lowell, The Election in November

Tagged: Slavery, Abolition, The Atlantic, American Civil War, manhood, Race

“In a society like ours, where every man may transmute his private thought into history and destiny by dropping it into the ballot-box, a peculiar responsibility rests upon the individual … For, though during its term of office the government be practically as independent of the popular will as that of Russia, yet every fourth year the people are called upon to pronounce upon the conduct of their affairs. Theoretically, at least, to give democracy any standing-ground for an argument with despotism or oligarchy, a majority of the men composing it should be statesmen and thinkers.”

— James Russell Lowell, Political Essays

Tagged: Democracy, voting, elections, The United States

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