|
"Civil Disobedience" (1849), composed following Thoreau's imprisonment for refusing to pay his taxes in protest against slavery and the Mexican War, is an eloquent declaration of the principles that make revolution inevitable in times of political dishonor.
|
search.barnesandnoble.com/Civil-Disobedience-Solitude-a...
search.barnesandnoble.com/Civil-Disobedience-Solitude-and-Life-without-Principle/Henry-David-Thoreau/e/9781573922029
|
|
|
|
Following Gandhi`s arrest, the British faced the full programme of civil disobedience as composed of Indian raids on salt depots, disobedience of forest laws, refusal to pay taxes in chosen areas, boycott of foreign cloth and spirits and avoidance of business with all British firms.
|
www.indianetzone.com/35/civil_disobedience_movement_193...
www.indianetzone.com/35/civil_disobedience_movement_1930-1931_british_india.htm
|
|
|
|
He extends the logic of his argument about civil disobedience to include any cause that might violate an individual's sense of moral conscience. At the time of ... He composed a letter from jail that he would later integrate into Civil Disobedience, published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government.
|
www.gradesaver.com/civil-disobedience/study-guide/about...
www.gradesaver.com/civil-disobedience/study-guide/about/
|
|
|
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...
|
www.transcendentalists.com/civil_disobedience.htm
www.transcendentalists.com/civil_disobedience.htm
|
|
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...
|
eserver.org/thoreau/civil.html
eserver.org/thoreau/civil.html
|
|
Thus, under the name of Order and Civil Government, we are all made at last to pay homage to and support our ... My civil neighbor, the tax-gatherer, is the very man I have to deal with - for it is, after all, with men and not with parchment that I quarrel - and he has voluntarily chosen to be an agent of the government.
|
art-bin.com/art/odisob.html
|
|
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.
|
www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/ci...
www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/civil/
|
|
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.
|
www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/thoreau1.html
|
|
[1849, original title: Resistance to Civil Government] ... 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.
|
www.constitution.org/civ/civildis.htm
www.constitution.org/civ/civildis.htm
|
|
