... I was seized and put into jail because, as I have elsewhere related, I did not pay a tax to, or recognize the authority of, the ‘state’ which buys and sells men, women, and children like cattle at the door of its senate house. I had gone down to the woods for other purposes but wherever a man goes men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions and if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. It is true I might have resisted forcibly with more or less effect, might have run amok against society, but I preferred that society should run amok against me, it being the desperate party. – Henry David Thoreau 1854
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:34:06 +0000
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