Thoreau's essay Civil Disobedience
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essay
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gptkb:Henry_David_Thoreau
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gptkb:United_States
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| gptkbp:explores |
nonviolent resistance
moral responsibility tax resistance |
| gptkbp:firstPublished |
gptkb:Aesthetic_Papers
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essay
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Thoreau's essay Civil Disobedience
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gptkb:Leo_Tolstoy
gptkb:Mahatma_Gandhi gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr. |
| gptkbp:language |
English
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| gptkbp:motive |
Thoreau's opposition to slavery
Thoreau's opposition to the Mexican-American War |
| 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
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| gptkbp:publicationYear |
1849
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| gptkbp:subject |
gptkb:civil_disobedience
gptkb:government individual conscience |
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gptkb:The_Night_Thoreau_Spent_in_Jail
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