On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
By Henry David Thoreau

An essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice.

It also calls for direct individual resistance to civil government in opposition to an unjust state due to moral reasons. Thoreau compares government to a machine and argues that it is the duty of citizens to make sure that their government is just and that if it is not, it is equally their duty to stop the machine.

Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War.

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