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15 de Abril, 2007
Ka-Ching, Ka-Boom.
Categorized under Guerra | Tags: Henry David Thoreau, Hope, Iraq, Power to the People
ANOTHER TAX DAY comes and goes. Between our typing against the war, and even our protests in the street, we pause to shell out the money that will continue to make it possible.
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right."—Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
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Comentarios (2)
Richard at Mexfiles dijo:
Henry only owned a buck, and there was no Homeland Security in his day, so I wouldn't recommend taking him literally, but he also said: “when … a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign armny, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact, that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army.”
Palabras por Richard at Mexfiles spat forth on el 16 de Abril, 2007 at 02:34 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
surely, nobody is forcing you to take him literally. and yet we can see where ignoring thinkers like him has led us.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 16 de Abril, 2007 at 06:52 AM