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Civil Disobedience

By Henry D. Thoreau

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| Hardcover | 9781557094179

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Originally published in 1849 as "Resistance to Civil Government," Thoreau's classic essay on resistance to the laws and acts of government that he considered unjust was largely ignored until the Twentieth Century when Mohanda Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and anti-Vietnam War activists applied ThoContinue

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This is a topical essay too.
"I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”
"Under a government which imprisons any unjus ... (continue)

This is a topical essay too.
"I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."

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