George Pyle: NBA plays a great inside-out game for justice
According to the story, American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, back in 1846, spent all of one night in jail as punishment for his refusal to pay six years’ worth of poll tax. It was his way of protesting both the Mexican-American War and slavery.He was visited there by his friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson. (Apparently, all famous American philosophers knew each other.)Emerson saw Thoreau in his jail cell and said, “Henry, what are you doing in there?”Thoreau replied, “Waldo
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