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Tue Oct-11-11 01:58 PM
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13. But they give access to thoughts the oppressors don't want us to hold

Being informed by those who came before us is not irrelevant.

TOday the mayor of Boston screams that he wants to eradicate all hints of Civil Disobediance...yet, ~150 years ago, Henry David Thoreau a resident of self-same Massachusetts argued that EVERY citizen has a Duty to Civil Disobedience when faced with a government demanding we corrupt our values.

Thoreau is introduced to most college students through Liberal Arts education not Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics.

Liberal Arts are essential to gaining an understanding ourselves, and very importantly, to getting the BEST advice from the generations who came before us.

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