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Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau(1849)
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Pages: 28
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-14-043694-5
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Thoreau's influential essay on resistance to civil government and individual conscience versus unjust laws.
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That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.
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Civil Disobedience
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That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.
Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.