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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Narrator Gord Mackenzie

Publisher: FILROUGEVICEVERSA

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Summary

Resistance to Civil Government, called Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
Duration: about 1 hour (01:21:59)
Publishing date: 2020-11-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2020. Copyright Statment: —