Emily Dickinson Quotes
Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?
Dickinson, Emily. The Letters of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, 1777-1864, had written the infamous Dred Scott decision requiring free states to return escaped slaves from the South. This decision widened the gap between North and South and made the Civil War almost inevitable. See {584921}.
The speech was an attempt to justify the Dirty War and the kidnappings, tortures, and killing of many citizens.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Little known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.
