Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)
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gptkbp:instanceOf essay
gptkbp:advocatesFor passive resistance
conscientious objection
gptkbp:author gptkb:Henry_David_Thoreau
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:criticizedFor gptkb:Mexican-American_War
slavery
gptkbp:firstPublished gptkb:Aesthetic_Papers
gptkbp:genre gptkb:philosophy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Leo_Tolstoy
gptkb:Mahatma_Gandhi
gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
gptkbp:ISBN 978-1-59308-219-3
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:length approximately 23 pages
gptkbp:mediaType gptkb:print
gptkbp:notableQuote Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
That government is best which governs least.
gptkbp:originalTitle gptkb:Resistance_to_Civil_Government
gptkbp:publicationYear 1849
gptkbp:subject gptkb:civil_disobedience
gptkb:government
individual conscience
gptkbp:theme individualism
justice
nonviolent resistance
moral responsibility
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Transcendentalist_movement
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6