Civil Disobedience

ISBN-13:	9781557094179
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	09/01/2000
Series:	Books of American Wisdom
Pages:	36
Sales rank:	278,075
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.75(h) x 0.30(d)

Originally published in 1849 as "Resistance to Civil Government," Thoreau's classic essay on resistance to the laws and acts of government that he considered unjust was largely ignored until the Twentieth Century when Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and anti-Vietnam War activists applied Thoreau's principles.