Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

Status
Finished reading
Rating
★★★★★
Started
June 1, 2016
Finished
June 1, 2016
Pages
32

About

Resistance to Civil Government, called Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such 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 (1846-1848).