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I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which both these things would be by me unavoidable. - Henry David Thoreau
Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. “A Plea for Captain John Brown” (1859), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, pp. 433-434, Houghton Mifflin (1906).

Categories: Author, Brown, John, Naturalist, Philosopher, Violence

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