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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 January 2025. 1849 essay by Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience First page of "Resistance to Civil Government" as published in Aesthetic Papers, in 1849. Author Henry David Thoreau Language English Publication place United States Media type Print Text Civil Disobedience at Wikisource This article ...
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, ... In his seminal essay, "Civil Disobedience", Thoreau wrote as follows:
Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown was a speech given by Henry David Thoreau on December 2, 1859, the day of John Brown's execution. Thoreau gave a few brief remarks of his own, read poetry by Sir Walter Raleigh ("The Soul's Errand"), William Collins ("How Sleep the Brave"), Friedrich Schiller (excerpts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's translation of "The Death of Wallenstein"), William ...
Henry David Thoreau's classic essay Civil Disobedience inspired Martin Luther King Jr. and many other activists. Henry David Thoreau's 1849 essay "Resistance to Civil Government" was eventually renamed "Essay on Civil Disobedience". After his landmark lectures were published in 1866, the term began to appear in numerous sermons and lectures ...
"A Plea for Captain John Brown" is an essay by Henry David Thoreau, based on a speech he first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts, on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown's execution on December 2, 1859.
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Reform Papers, Princeton University Press, 1973 (ISBN 0-691-06241-2) The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform, Princeton University Press, 2004 (ISBN 978-0691118765) My Thoughts are Murder to the State, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2007 (ISBN 978-1434804266
My Thoughts are Murder to the State by Henry David Thoreau (ISBN 978-1434804266) The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform (ISBN 978-0691118765) Collected Essays and Poems by Henry David Thoreau (ISBN 978-1-88301195-6
Its motto, "The best government is that which governs least", was famously paraphrased by Henry David Thoreau in "Resistance to Civil Government", better known as Civil Disobedience, [1] and is often erroneously attributed to Thomas Jefferson. [2]