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Quote from Henry David Thoreau,


"As for adopting the ways which the state has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's life will be gone." - (Henry David Thoreau - "On Civil Disobedience")



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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:

On Civil Disobedience

Categories:

Disobedience, Dissent, Redress, Self-Determination, Statism

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