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85 pointsljiljana9y ago7 comments

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yarou9y ago· 2 in thread

"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience."

gozur889y ago

Which is a great attitude to take until you run into someone who's okay with having your dead body.

drinkjuice9y ago

Killing the person you are to keep a person you're not alive for a bit and then still dying at some point seems like a really bad trade-off to me; and if all people always had thought that way, you and I would have been born chained to a wall.

spodek9y ago

The original essay is eminently readable and, in my opinion, inspirational: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71.

Under 10,000 words, funny, and insightful. It tells of a man who didn't just complain but acted on his conscience. Gandhi and MLK followed in his footsteps.

shinski9y ago

Interesting, I had not realized how much today resembles the mid 19th century.

lichform9y ago

I'm glad to see that after 8 years civil disobedience is once again acceptable.

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