Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 27/04/2017

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In his 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing the government to make them the agents of injustice. Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) credited Thoreau's essay with being "the chief cause of the abolition of slavery in America."

ISBN:
9781365917790
9781365917790
Category:
Human rights & civil liberties law
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
27-04-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Enhanced Media Publishing
Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) was born in Concord, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He became a follower and a friend of Emerson, and described himself as a mystic and a transcendentalist.

Although he published only two books in his lifetime, Walden is a literary masterpeice and one of the most significant books of the nineteenth century.

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