 | Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 314 pages
...this American government to-day ? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization...my government which is the slave's government also. All men recognize the right of revolution ; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 158 pages
...I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognise that political organization as my government which is the slave's government also. All men recognise the right of revolution ; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 452 pages
...toward this American government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization...my government which is the slave's government also. All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 456 pages
...rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried." The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, butKgs machinesy'with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1898 - 462 pages
...toward this American government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. (I cannot for an instant recognize that political...my government which is the slave's government also^ All men recognize the_right_jof_revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance tp, and to resist,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 560 pages
...this American government to-day ? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization...my government which is the slave's government also. All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist,... | |
 | John Albert Macy - 1913 - 368 pages
...much-needed word of rebellion. "How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization...government which is the slave's government also." For "black slave," which he means, substitute "white slave" or "child labourer" and the sentence stands... | |
 | Waldo Ralph Browne - 1919 - 172 pages
...this American government to-day ? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization...my government which is the slave's government also. All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist,... | |
 | Carl Lotus Becker - 1922 - 330 pages
...toward the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave's government also."3 In justification of their revolt against the established regime, the abolitionists naturally... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 1926 - 526 pages
...Government. "How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answer that he cannot for an instant recognize that political organization...government which is the slave's government also." He felt the Government was trying to herd him, and declared: "All men recognize the right of revolution;... | |
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How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave's government also. 
