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"I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour--for the horse was soon tackled--was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen."
"On m'avait conduit en prison alors que je me rendais chez le cordonnier pour y chercher une chaussure en réparation. Libéré le lendemain matin, j'allais finir ma course et ayant enfilé ma chaussure ressemelée, je rejoignis un groupe qui partait aux airelles, fort impatient de s'en re-mettre à ma direction ; une demi-heure plus tard -- car le cheval fut bientôt harnaché -- je me trouvais en plein champ d'airelles sur l'une de nos plus hautes collines, à plus de trois kilomètres et de là, on ne voyait l'État nulle part."
 By: | Henry David Thoreau (more quotes by Henry David Thoreau or books by/about Henry David Thoreau) |
| (1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist |
Source: | A Duty of Civil Disobedience [1849], available at http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/civ.dis.html; La Désobéissance civile, translated by Micheline Flak (Montréal: La Presse, 1973), p. 95 |
Categories: | Emancipation, Police, Prison, Statism |
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