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 What is the current price of an honest man and patriot today? They are ambiguous and saddened, and they sometimes make appeals, but they do nothing decisive and effective. They are expecting, well-intentioned, that someone else will correct the evil so that there is no longer any sorrow for them. At best, they sacrifice only a cheap vote, and a tiny support and hope for good success, for the right as they see it. " Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau in his essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" supported being disobedient to an unfair state. His ideas were influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and also by the minister Martin Luther King Jr., who championed disobedience and resistance in a non-violent way. Strikes, symbolic protests, the boycott of products, refusal to pay (see taxes, tolls, etc.) are peaceful methods of resistance and civil disobedience. Usually, the peaceful struggle is outside the existing political system and requires mass mobilization. According

 What is the Biden Administration doing (a) to help the15 to 43% of children who are traumatized in the US, (b) to help the 3 million who are food deficient and have to ask the teacher for food, and (c) to equip schools with the proper tools with which to teach children to read and write? The answer is that as a result of the case of Citizens United in 2010 which allowed for unlimited spending in elections, government decisions are purchased with campaign contributions - legalized bribery. Children do not vote so they can't compete with corporate interests in the corridors of power which are awash with lobbyists' money. The politicians who run the government are uneducated about the education system. For example, the current Democratic candidate in the Governor's race in Virginia, Terry McAuliffe recently said that parents don't have the right to dictate what should be on school curricula. The Governor was arguably, for political purposes, pandering to the Teachers U