On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

On the Duty of Civil
Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
By Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

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).

Read by Gord Mackenzie. Total running time: 01:21:19.

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Cover picture by Stefano Bolognini (2009) (http://commons.wikimedia.Org/wiki/File:Sit-in_against_
homophobia_Mi_20097.JPG). Cover design by Janette Brown. This design is in the public domain.

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