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Henry David Thoreau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, development critic, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is famous for Walden, on simple living amongst nature, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, on resistance to civil government and many other articles and essays. He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. ..." |
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| 12 Jul 1817, David Henry Thoreau, in Concord, Massachusetts |
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| 6 May 1862, in Concord, Massachusetts |
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Henry David Thoreau and "Civil Disobedience," Part 1, by Wendy McElroy, Freedom Daily, Mar 2005
"'Civil Disobedience' ... is one of the most influential political tracts ever written by an American. [It] is an analysis of the individual's relationship to the state that focuses on why men obey governmental law even when they believe it to be unjust. ... the real cost of paying his poll tax ... would have meant quarreling with his owns conscience ..." |
Henry David Thoreau and "Civil Disobedience," Part 2, by Wendy McElroy, Freedom Daily, Apr 2005
"It is a secular call for the inviolability of conscience on all issues, and this aspect may account for some of the essay's enduring legacy. ... Thoreau denies the right of any government to automatic an unthinking obedience. Obedience should be ... withheld from an unjust government." |
Thoreau and "Resistance to Civil Government", by Gary M. Galles, Mises.org Daily Article, 19 Sep 2002
"... his insights in 'Civil Disobedience' are, if anything, more important in our far more complex world, because that sheer complexity often disguises the sorts of foundational questions he considered about the defensible role for government in the lives and liberties of its citizens. " |
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Protesting the Tax Protesters, by James Ostrowski, 1 Jan 2007
Related Topics: Taxation, Constitution of the United States
"Tax protesters are not exercising civil disobedience as Henry David Thoreau did. That would be an entirely different strategy. Civil disobedience involves deliberately violating an unjust law so as to arouse public sentiment against it. That is not what tax protesters are doing." |
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