On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By Thoreau, Henry David

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Title:	On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Author:	Thoreau, Henry David
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Philosophy
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Historic Publication Date:	1849
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago David Thoreau, B. H. (1849). On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

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Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thoreau’s belief that people should not allow governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty both to avoid doing injustice directly and to avoid allowing their acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War. (Summary from Wikipedia).

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