Henry David Thoreau:

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.

— Henry David Thoreau Modern

Civil disobedience, Walden

Context

Civil Disobedience

Date / Period

1849

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm

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