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Henry David Thoreau

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He argued that we do not fight for what is right, but for our own selfish ways. This, Thoreau believed, was one of man's deepest flaws. Henry David Thoreau also believed that society was mentally stagnant. He claimed that humanity dwelled too much on the ideals and thoughts of men who had died long ago...
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"The foregoing generations beheld God face to face," he said, "Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition?" Thoreau obsessed with stirring the conscience of his peers, which eventually drove him to jail in protest of an ?oppressive government.' He accentuated the importance of thinking for ourselves and acting on those thoughts...
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