Famous Quotes | They who are continually shocked...

They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others. Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death. - 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, p. 433, Houghton Mifflin (1906).

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

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