The Ghost Tree Quotes

“What the imagination has made, the imagination can unmake.”
― Barbara Erskine, The Ghost Tree

“long time yet. I enjoyed sitting on the Woolsack where one of my greatest triumphs was to be able to support the bill for the immediate abolition of the slave trade, ending my speech with the words, ‘Let us now set an example of humanity and justice which may be followed by all the nations of the earth.”
― Barbara Erskine, The Ghost Tree

“No one is morally justified in removing a man from his own soil, taking him to a faraway country and keeping him there by force. And no man is morally entitled to own another.”
― Barbara Erskine, The Ghost Tree

“Hermes the messenger of the gods.”
― Barbara Erskine, The Ghost Tree