On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Audiobook) by Henry.
Check out this great listen on Audible.in. In 1849, Henry David Thoreau argued in his essay “Civil Disobedience” that people should not allow governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have the right to avoid such submission to permit the government to make.
The term “civil disobedience” was brought about in 1849 by Henry David Thoreau in his essay and since those times has been sparkling controversies with its ambiguous nature. What exactly falls under civil disobedience? Is it an act of breaking the law, is it a fight for justice, or is it a lawful right of all citizens to the freedom of speech? These questions are a bit hard to answer.
Librivox recording of On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau. Read by Gord Mackenzie. 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.
Civil disobedience, which is sometimes also referred to as nonviolent resistance, is typically defined as the act of refusing to obey certain laws of a government. Closely associated with Henry David.
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Civil Disobedience (also known as On the Duty of Civil Disobedience and Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay published in 1849 by American writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau.In this essay, Thoreau puts forward the argument each of us has an obligation to resist obedience to a government that acts unjustly lest we become agents of those same injustices.