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After all our discoveries and inventions no man will go by a pile of wood. It is as precious to us as it was to our Saxon and Norman ancestors. If they made their bows of it, we make our gun-stocks of it.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
James Powell
@jpowell
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society [1] places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is... See more
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Moreover, Harriet Stowe had made a black man her hero, and she took his race seriously, and no American writer had done that before. The fundamental fault, she fervently held, was with the system. Every white American was guilty, the Northerner no less than the slaveholder, especially the churchgoing kind, her kind.
David McCullough • Brave Companions
Stuart Landis
@stuartlandis
Hadley Hrdlicka
@hadleyhrdlicka
Harold T. Harper
@haroldharper
Steven Stockwell
@stevenstockwell
Geoffrey Gimse
@textandhubris