Tuesday, September 15, 2009

WALDEN'S PASSAGE


I WENT TO THE WOODS BECAUSE
I WISHED TO LIVE DELIBERATELY...

WE LIVE BUT A FRACTION OF OUR LIVES...

OUR LIFE IS FRITTERED AWAY BY DETAIL...SIMPLIFY....SIMPLIFY

LET YOUR CAPITAL BE SIMPLICITY AND CONTENTMENT...


CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE PASSAGE


"WHO ARE MORE INTERESTED IN COMMERCE AND AGRICULTURE THAN THEY ARE IN

HUMANITY, AND ARE NOT PREPARED TO DO JUSTICE TO THE SLAVE AND TO MEXICO,

COST IT WHAT MAY......THERE ARE THOUNSANDS WHO ARE IN OPPINION OPPOSED


TO SLAVERY AND TO THE WAR. WHO YET IN EFFECT DO NOTHINGTO PUT AN END TO

THEM"...


...Paying taxes is one way in which otherwise well-meaning people collaborate in
injustice. People who proclaim that the war in Mexico is wrong and that it is wrong to
enforce slavery contradict themselves if they fund both things by puying taxes...

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