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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a naturalist, essayist, poet and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for citizen disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the fugitive slave law. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of notable figures such as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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