of justice is more effective, as truth is stronger than error. Thoreau then speaks to us:
             Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. (Thoreau 645)
             Thoreau declares he cannot associate with the American government because it's a slaves government. He states, "A sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves". He criticizes not only slave owners but merchants and farmers who care more about commerce and agriculture
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