I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life . . . and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Thoreau goes to live in the woods because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and learn what they had to teach and to discover if he had really lived.

It would seem that the three things of greatest importance to Thoreau, then, were philosophy, nature (the love of nature and the study of nature), and freedom. Truth, of course, is an essential part of philosophy, as are reading and writing.

What did Thoreau learn from his experiment in the woods? that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

In fact, Thoreau argues, it is solitude, not society, which prevents loneliness. Even in solitude, one is connected to all things. Thoreau believes that people are distracted by being polite and that they spend too much time around each other, which actually makes them respect each other less.

Thoreau moved to the woods of Walden Pond to learn to live deliberately. He desired to learn what life had to teach him. He moved to the woods to experience a purposeful life. While living in the woods, Thoreau desired to simplify his life.

“I went to the woods because i wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life, and see if i could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when i came to die, discover that i had not lived.” We waste life on unimportant things.

Living deliberately means that you follow a path, but you designed it yourself. You state where you want to go and develop a strategy to get there.

He doesn’t want to be in the position where, when he’s about to die, he realizes that he never really lived. So because of that, he wants to live life “deeply” and to “suck the marrow” (marrow is the stuff that you find inside bones if you crack them) from life — that is, to get every last bit of goodness out of life.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

So, what does it mean, deeply? To live with heart intention. To “lose the badge” of self-importance. To stop being preoccupied with what everyone else is doing. And to stop being preoccupied with what everyone else is thing about you and what you will do next.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

A More Deliberate Way of Living

1. Set intentions at the start.
2. Pick your important tasks & make them your focus.
3. One activity at a time.
4. Use any activity as a meditation.
5. Create more space.
6. Be in silence more.
7. Create containers for messaging & other chaos.
8. Simplify by limiting or banning.

By definition justice means the quality of being just or fair. Justice is the administration of law, the act of determining rights and assigning rewards or punishments, “justice deferred is justice denied.” The terms of Justice is brought up in Henry David Thoreau’s writing, “Civil Disobedience.”

Thoreau did not think very highly of voting in general or individuals who expressed their opinions by casting votes. He thought that voting was too much like gambling: risky and uncertain. He said that many people have opinions that seem strong.

The 1828 presidential election was the first in which non-property-holding white males could vote in the vast majority of states. By the end of the 1820s, attitudes and state laws had shifted in favor of universal white male suffrage.

To combat this problem, Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870. It says: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Universal manhood suffrage is a form of voting rights in which all adult male citizens within a political system are allowed to vote, regardless of income, property, religion, race, or any other qualification. It is sometimes summarized by the slogan, “one man, one vote”.

Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote.

The 14th Amendment (1868) guaranteed African Americans citizenship rights and promised that the federal government would enforce “equal protection of the laws.” The 15th Amendment (1870) stated that no one could be denied the right to vote based on “race, color or previous condition of servitude.” These amendments …

The Seventeenth Amendment restates the first paragraph of Article I, section 3 of the Constitution and provides for the election of senators by replacing the phrase “chosen by the Legislature thereof” with “elected by the people thereof.” In addition, it allows the governor or executive authority of each state, if …

What tactics were used to disenfranchise African American voters in the first half of the 20th Century? Poll taxes and literacy tests kept many blacks from voting. Many southern states also disenfranchised blacks through use of the white primary. This was a primary election in which only whites could participate.

Disenfranchisement. The state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote.