1.25.2026 – then I say, let your

then I say, let your
life be a counter-friction
to stop the machine

Adapted from the passage:

If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil;

but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine.

From the essay, Civil Disobedience By Henry David Thoreau as printed in The works of Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 1937).