"Anyone in a free society where the..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.”

“To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.”

“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”

“If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.”

“Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.”

“It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer".”

“One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.”

“I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.”

“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.”