Thoreau's refusal to support what he saw as injustice culminates in his essay "Civil Disobedience." After refusing to pay four years of poll taxes, Thoreau is briefly imprisoned. Thoreau is adamantly ...
Sentinel & Enterprise: Lunenburg native to recreate Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Izzy Greenbaum, Thoreau and the Power of Civil Disobedience in a Fragile Democracy
OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: Izzy Greenbaum, Thoreau and the Power of Civil Disobedience in a Fragile Democracy
Careful observers of actions by environmentalists such as splashing paintings or gluing themselves to pavement recognize that the activists come from a long tradition of civil disobedience. The ...
Yahoo: Civil disobedience is one thing, but law and order seems to be losing the battle
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police respond to reports of a crime. (Getty Images) Now, I’m all for a little civil disobedience from time to time. Think of ...
Civil disobedience is one thing, but law and order seems to be losing the battle
Civil disobedience is a constant of history. The Boston Tea Party was a violent symbolic demonstration against British tyranny in 1773 that preceded the American Revolutionary War. An unelected ...
LUNENBURG — After he spent the night in jail one July night in 1846 for refusing to pay his poll tax as an act of protest against slavery and the Mexican War, Henry David Thoreau gave a lecture which ...
THE DAYS OF HENRY THOREAU by Walter Harding. 472 pages. Knopf. $7.95. Henry David Thoreau has been buried in Concord, Mass. for a century. The stubborn, contradictory spirit laid to rest there did not ...