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Thoreau Unmuzzled: A Free-Speech Friendly Sampler for Patriots, Pundits & Politicos
Thoreau Unmuzzled A Free-Speech Friendly Sampler for Patriots Pundits Politicos Author:Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau once wrote: If there were any magnanimity in us, any grandeur of soul...how often we might encourage and provoke one another by a free expression! I will not consent to walk with my mouth muzzled....) - Infused with the defiant spirit of such pronouncements, Thoreau Un-Muzzled is a compilation of quotations and slightly longe... more »r passages excerpted from various works of the nineteenth-century naturalist, philosopher, social critic, and literary icon. The book's overarching themes are freedom and human rights. Five areas of general focus include the following : 1) an introductory look at Thoreau's values and ideals, including statements on truth and simplicity; 2) free speech, the press, and gossip vs. news of real substance; 3) human rights and civil liberties; justice; slavery, abolitionism and emancipation (including fairly extensive commentary on the life and works of the American abolitionist martyr John Brown); 4) government; patriotism and political protest; politics/politicians; and 5) religion and spirituality, including passages relating to sectarianism and religious bigotry and hypocrisy, as well as passages that may be characterized as addressing religious pessimism vs. spiritual optimism.« less