It’s worth taking a moment to reflect on what civil disobedience is, and what it isn’t. Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay “Civil Disobedience” held that citizens were responsible for the unjust actions ...
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 ...
Tom Montgomery Fate writes in his Daily Herald Viewpoint June 15 about Henry David Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience." Thoreau makes many timeless claims in this essay including: • Unjust laws exist ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joseph J. Thorndike writes about tax history. Henry David Thoreau was a supremely efficient tax protester. Measured in terms of ...
The lifeguard addressing me was just a teenager. It wasn’t his fault. I should listen to him and go home. But I was already up to my hips in the water. He cleared his throat. Please, don’t say it ...
They didn’t illegally camp out in local parks or on college campuses, as many protesters did across the U.S. recently. But back in 1773, the Boston Tea Partiers broke the law when they protested ...
More than 300 activists from Extinction Rebellion have been arrested in London as the environmental group launches a two-week campaign of civil disobedience in the English capital. Extinction ...
DISOBEDIENCE is a long step beyond dissent. In this country, at least in theory, no one denies the right of any person to differ with the government, or his right to express that difference in speech, ...
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 ...
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