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A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers

A work by Henry David Thoreau

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  • What korrents draws from it

    A government that deliberately enacts and persists in injustice will eventually become the laughing-stock of the world, Law will never make people free; people have to make the law free, Whoever can discern truth has a higher authority than the highest judge who can discern only law …

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    Henry David Thoreau

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What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. A government that deliberately enacts and persists in injustice will eventually become the laughing-stock of the world (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Law will never make people free; people have to make the law free (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Whoever can discern truth has a higher authority than the highest judge who can discern only law (opens korrents.com)1

  4. In this country the press exerts a greater and more harmful influence than the church did at its worst (opens korrents.com)1

  5. People are to be human beings first, and Americans only late and when convenient (opens korrents.com)1

  6. A righteous reform cannot be achieved by expediency; in morals there is no sliding uphill (opens korrents.com)1

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  • Henry David Thoreau

Sources

  1. A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (korrents) (opens korrents.com)

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