"Civil Disobedience"by Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) championed the belief that people of conscience were at liberty to follow their own opinion, and we see Thoreau as the individualist and opponent of injustice. "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.
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