Henry David Thoreau Quote

Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.


A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers (ed. 1866)


Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not...

Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not...

Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not...

Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not...