Category: Thoreau-Back Thursday
Representative John Lewis speaks at the Thoreau’s Path on Brister’s Hill dedication ceremony, 2006
Martin Luther King, Jr. found inspiration in Henry David Thoreau
Cornel West and Transcendentalism
Higher Laws: Black and White Transcendentalists and the Fight Against Slavery
Marbles With Thoreau
Thoreau My Life Away
Song by Blue Garden
Lyrics by David Ballman
Music by Bob Andresen
This reminds me of Walden on Wheels
MLK Acceptance Speech

So much of modern life can be summarized in that arresting dictum of the poet Thoreau:
‘Improved means to an unimproved end.’
This is the serious predicament, the deep and haunting problem confronting modern man.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
December 10th, 1964
