Henry David Thoreau 3

The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls—the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning. 

—from Henry David Thoreau, Slavery in Massachusetts 

IMAGE: William Powell Frith, Poverty and Wealth (1888)