Thoreau’S Civil Disobedience
Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience advocates the need to prioritize one's conscience over the dictates of laws. It criticizes American social institutions and policies, most prominently slavery and the Mexican American War. In Civil Disobedience, Thoreau introduces the idea of civil disobedience that was used later by Mohandas Gandhi
and Martin Luther King. In fact, many consider Thoreau as the greatest exponent of passive resistance of the 19th century. The usual title given this essay is Civil Disobedience but despite Gandhi's attribution of this term to Thoreau, Thoreau himself never uses the term anywhere in any of his works. When given as a lecture at the Concord Lyceum on January 26, 1848, the essay was titled "On the Relation of the Individual to the State." Only after Thoreau was dead for four years did the essay assume the title that finally stuck. (Click, 1973)
Thoreau begins Civil Disobedience by arguing that government rarely......
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