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Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience

Thoreau, Henry David

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Literary CriticismGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1646794656
ISBN13: 9781646794652
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: Jan 1 1849
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.

-Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849)


Civil Disobedience (1849) was originally delivered as impassioned lectures denouncing government, especially with respect to slavery and the Mexican-American War. Abolitionist Thoreau exhorts people to take action against the government, which he deems corrupt and unjust. Proponents of nonviolence such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and Leo Tolstoy credit Thoreau's essay as influential in their work. Civil Disobedience remains significant in today's society with quotes like The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation and A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

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