[Thoreau] `Resistance to Civil Government` (`Civil Disobedience`) 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 enab...
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Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is sometimes, though not always, defined as being nonviolent resistance. ==Overview== One of its earliest massive implementations was brought about by Egyptians against the Briti...
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(from the article `American literature`) ...man should simplify his demands if need be to `suck out all the marrow of life.` In his essay Civil Disobedience (1849; originally titled ... ...slavery and waged an imperialist war against Mexico. His defense of the private, individual conscience against the expediency of the majori...
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refusal to obey the demands or commands of a government or occupying power, without resorting to violence or active measures of opposition; its usual ... [6 related articles]
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Deliberate breaking of laws considered unjust, a form of nonviolent direct action; the term was coined by the US writer Henry Thoreau in an essay of that name in 1849. It was advocated by Mahatma...
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n] - a group`s refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination)
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The nonviolent refusal to obey certain laws as an act of political protest.
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noun a group`s refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination); `Thoreau wrote a famous essay justifying civil disobedience`
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Deliberate breaking of laws considered unjust, a form of nonviolent direct action; the term was coined by the US writer Henry Thoreau in an essay of that name in 1849. It was advocated by Mahatma Gandhi to prompt peaceful withdrawal of British power from India. Civil disobedience has since been employed by, for instance, the US civil-rights...
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the refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy, characterized by the employment of such nonviolent techniques as boycotting, picketing, and nonpayment of taxes. Cf. noncooperation (def. 2), · (caps., italics) an essay (1848) by Thoreau.
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