Editor and reformer, Horace Greeley is renowned for bringing a revolution in American journalism. He is best-known as the founder and editor of ‘New York Tribune’. After struggling for few years, Greely published the first edition of ‘The New-Yorker’ along with Jonas Winchester. Apart from this, he was also active in politics and worked in the ‘Whig Party’. Later during 1941, he founded, ‘New York Tribune’; one of the leading newspapers of that time. Greeley then edited this newspaper for the next three decades and the paper discussed about the social issues during that period. He threw light on many social issues like, women rights and labors, opposed monopolies and expressed his thoughts on the same through his editorials which caught the attention of masses. A crusader, Greeley created many controversies and even challenged Abraham Lincoln over slavery. Horace’s opinions, thoughts, writings and work on slavery, freedom, wisdom and journalism are very enthralling. Take a look at the famous thoughts and quotations by Horace Greeley which will give you a glimpse of his revolutionary mind.
