Strong Opinions Quotes
This quotation, one of William Lloyd Garrison’s favorite quotations illustrating the intellectual degeneration brought about by slavery. In historical perspective, Lumpkin, later, was one of the three justices of the Georgia Supreme Court, and with this kind of intellectual and legal corruption the Courts of the South were major forces protecting the institution of slavery.
Bush was not a stupid man although he seemed so at times. He was anti-intellectual, had little intellectual curiosity and read little. However his speaking oratory skills were not very strong, although he was very affable and effective with small groups. This was one of his many gaffs.