CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience is the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.

Resistance to Civil Government, called Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).

     

Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus. The act of civil disobedience made Parks an icon of the Civil Rights Movement.

GUESS WHAT'S INTERESTING HERE?    All over the world, those people who demonstrate CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE are not wealthy or powerful...