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Civil Disobedience (Books of American Wisdom)
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$12.95
Publication Date: September 1st, 2000
Publisher:
Applewood Books
ISBN:
9781557094179
Pages:
36
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Description
Originally published in 1849 as "Resistance to Civil Government," Thoreau's classic essay on resistance to the laws and acts of government that he considered unjust was largely ignored until the Twentieth Century when Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and anti-Vietnam War activists applied Thoreau's principles.
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