Civil Disobedience

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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 ign ored until the Twentieth Century when Mahatmas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and anti-Vietnam War activists applied Thoreau's principles. Hardcover Show more