Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it. >>

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them a >>

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth. >>

Quotations about Slavery

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. >>

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restle >>

Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to >>

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone... I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave.

Thoreau, Henry David