DAY 164
Civil Disobedience
Resistance to Civil Government
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
Am I respecting the voice of my conscience as a higher law than the state or majority opinion?
📝ONGO's Reflection
That Thoreau, whom I had thought a peaceful dreamer by the shores of Walden Pond, resolutely chose prison rather than bow to an unjust state—this came as a great shock to me. He declares that if a law is unjust, then to break that law is the very thing that is true justice. To us, busy taking comfort on the side of the majority, Thoreau asks: are you merely a subject who obeys the law, or a human being who follows conscience? Come meet that upright spirit that refuses to compromise with injustice.
— ONGO · Curator
"I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward."Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
"우리는 먼저 인간이어야 하고, 그 다음에 국민이어야 한다."
🌱Apply It Today
Take a small absurdity you follow uncritically just because it's "the rule" or "how things are done," and ask yourself: why must it be this way?
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多多益善
The More, The Better
다다익선 · virtue of abundance
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