Henry Thoreau -- Civil Disobedience

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Thoreau shows that the State can and will force a man to slave for the sake of an ordeal he does not believe in. Thoreau states that "a wise man will only be useful as a man" (Thoreau, p. 678). This shows that Thoreau believes that men who toil at any ruling establishment’s bidding, merely because it sought him to do so, surrenders his own facilities as a human being; and becomes nothing more than "on a level with wood and earth and stones...
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Commanding no more respect than men of straw, or a lump of dirt" (Thoreau, p. 678). Thoreau had a dispirited outlook on the majority of people in his nation, this is shown In his quote: "To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake...
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Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts on July 12, 1817 ("Thoreau" 96), on his grandmother's farm. Thoreau, who was of French-Huguenot and Scottish-Quaker ancestry, was baptized as David Henry Thoreau, but at the age of twenty he legally changed his name to Henry David...	8 / 2070
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