Henry David Thoreau Quotes
A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.
Thoreau, Henry David. The Maine Woods. Ticknor and Fields, 1864.
In 1909 Minto was dispatched to India by the British Liberal government to reform the racism in government appointments. Minto first identified Dr. A. Mukerji, the Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University as a perfect candidate for the first Indian appointment to the Viceroy’s Executive Council. Instead Satyendra Sinha was appointed.
Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.