waldo

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Ralph Waldo Emerson declared that Brown would “make the gallows as glorious as the cross.”

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2026

Noonan also won Sundance’s Waldo Salt screenwriting award for the script.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

As Ralph Waldo Emerson saw it, Brown’s death on the scaffold turned him into a “new Saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

While the phrase originates from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn” and refers specifically to the Battle of Concord, the first shots of the Revolutionary War were actually fired earlier that day in Lexington.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2025

I don’t care if he’s the one who really said it or not, right now I sort of hate Ralph Waldo Emerson.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée