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Civil Disobedience (Thoreau) Resistance to Civil Government, also called On the Duty of Civil Disobedience or Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849.
Civil Disobedience. I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of ...
A Desobediência Civil (em inglês, Civil Disobedience) é um ensaio escrito por Henry David Thoreau em 1849 [1]. Thoreau escreveu o livro após ter sido preso por não pagar seus impostos, que ele se negou a pagar porque financiavam a guerra contra o México, que na época teve grande parte de seu território anexado pelos EUA.
In Civil Disobedience as throughout his other writings, Thoreau focuses on the individual's ultimate responsibility to live deliberately and to extract meaning from his own life; overseeing the machinery of society is secondary. Thoreau asserts that he does not want to quarrel or to feel superior to others.
4 de jan. de 2007 · 1. Features of Civil Disobedience. Henry David Thoreau is widely credited with coining the term civil disobedience. For years, Thoreau refused to pay his state poll tax as a protest against the institution of slavery, the extermination of Native Americans, and the war against Mexico.
Guerra de 1846 entre os EUA e o México. Thoureau escreve "A Desobediência Civil" no período da guerra contra o México (1846-1848), provocada pela incorporação do estado do Texas como parte dos Estados Unidos.
Thoreau provides examples of his own acts of civil disobedience. First, he recounts how he refused to pay a tax to the church, though someone else eventually paid on his behalf. Then he shares that he also did not pay a poll tax for six years, for which he was eventually imprisoned.
