TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

Walt Whitman
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TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty. - Harriet Beecher Stowe The great thing about this quote is that it is true in every single part. When you are captured by an ideology other than your own it becomes difficult to recover your own identity. It has been proved that people who are caught in ideologies other than their own often lose the ability to reason.

They become unable to make decisions for themselves without having someone else make them for them. This quote is not about words but action. It states that if you obey blindly you will become a slave.

However if you do not obey blindly but instead challenge the ideology that enslaves you then you can get out of enslavement and be free again.

Source: Leaves Of Grass

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