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Here’s what American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau (in his essay, Resistance to Civil Government, first published in 1849) said about civil disobedience: That government is best which governs least… The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes […]

You don’t have to go overseas to find poverty; you just need to look outside your front door. Here is an elder who (with my permission) comes to our place every week to look through our recyclables and collect bottles that she’ll later trade for cash. She arrives a day before garbage day. Now why […]