Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressi…

Henry David Thoreau
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Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1942). Civil Disobedience, p.6, Hayes Barton Press
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