If it’s hard to think clearly, you gotta read clear thoughts:
„All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse alliance to, and resist to, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. But almost all say that such is not the case now.“
•Henry David Thoreau; Civil Disobedience
„A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.“
„Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with everything which was. It not only devides states and churches, it devides families; ay, it devides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the devine.“
„When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.“
„It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the state than it would to obey.“
„Know all men by these presents, that I, Henry David Thoreau, do not wish to be regarded as a member of any incorporated society which I have not joined“
[In Prison] „I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could feel as free as I was.“
