"Sometimes I wonder why we are so superficial - because that's almost what I have to say! - that we deal so much with the outrageous, but somewhat alien to us, issue of Negro slavery, when we have so many refined and cruel slave owners in both the North and the South. It's bad if someone has southern hair, even worse if he's from the northern states; but the worst thing is when you are on your own!
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Author
Henry David ThoreauAll Translations
All Translations
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Sometimes I wonder why we are so superficial - because that's almost what I have to say! - that we deal so much with the outrageous, but somewhat alien to us, issue of Negro slavery, when we have so many refined and cruel slave owners in both the North and the South. It's bad if someone has southern hair, even worse if he's from the northern states; but the worst thing is when you are on your own!
""Néha eszembe jut, hogy vajon miért vagyunk olyan felületesek - mert szinte már ennek kell mondanom! -, hogy annyit foglalkozunk a felháborító, ám tőlünk valamelyest idegen néger rabszolgaság kérdésével, amikor északon és délen egyaránt annyi nálunk a rafinált és kegyetlen rabszolgatartó. Rossz, ha valakinek déli hajcsára van, még rosszabb, ha az északi államokból való; de a legrosszabb, ha magad vagy a magad hajcsára!"