Civil Disobedience: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, or Resistance to Civil Authority

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Influential on thinkers including Mahatma Gandhi, Marcel Proust, Upton Sinclair, William Butler Yeats, Leo Tolstoy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., Henry David Thoreau's essay on civil disobedience dates from 1849, before the American Civil War. Thoreau argues that one's conscience, rather than the letter of the law, is the authority to which one owes obedience in civil matters. He uses the essay to explore ways in which the abolitionists of his da...