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Vote - Your Power To Screw Yourself! - 0 views

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    Vote - Our right to say that we care for our country. However, the politicians seem to abuse the system for their own benefits and businesses seem to join the party. Here's slap on democracy and people's plight.
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Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau (1849) - 0 views

  • "I am too high-born to be propertied,

    To be a secondary at control,

    Or useful serving-man and instrument

    To any sovereign state throughout the world." [William Shakespeare King John]
  • All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. 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.
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    This text is sometimes presented under the title On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Its original title is Resistance to Civil Government.
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