Civil Disobedience Originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government" By Henry David Thoreau - 1849 - with annotated text ... While Walden can be applied to almost anyone's life, "Civil Disobedience" is like a venerated architectural landmark: it is preserved and admired, and sometimes visited, but for most of us...
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Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power, without resorting to physical violence. It is one of the primary methods...
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Civil Disobedience, essay by Henry David Thoreau. Also known as Resistance to Civil Government and including such well-known quotes as That government is best which governs least. Part of a larger site on Thoreau and the Transcendentalists. ... On the Duty of Civil Disobedience...
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Thus, under the name of Order and Civil Government, we are all made at last to pay homage to and support our own meanness. After the first blush of sin comes ... It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.
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The history of Civil Disobedience is a long and international one. ... Below are several pages describing some of the history, theory, and practice of civil disobedience. Many of these sections were taken (with love) from the Handbook for Nonviolent Action available from the War Resister's League in New York City.
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Civil disobedience is a form of protest in which protestors deliberately violate a law. Classically, they violate the law they are protesting, such as segregation or draft laws, but sometimes they violate other laws which they find unobjectionable, such as trespass or traffic laws.
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Civil disobedience, direct action, has a long and honourable tradition dating from Henry David Thoreau. Civil disobedience, nonviolent direct action - the deliberate violation of a law for a social purpose. Deep ecological awareness leads to direct action. ... Civil disobedience, direct action, has a long and...
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Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience ... It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.
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