“A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies.”

—  Henry David Thoreau, book Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience (1849)

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