![]() Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War.Ĭivil Disobedience (1849) Unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. ![]() The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.Ĭivil Disobedience (1849) is an essay by Henry David Thoreau expressing his belief that people should not allow governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences and that people have a duty both to avoid doing injustice directly and to avoid allowing their acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. ![]()
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