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Title: Civil Disobedience


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Civil Disobedience
  • What is it?
  • Who did it?
  • When?

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What is it
  • An essay by Henry David Thoreau
  • Non violently disobeying an unjust law

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Who did it?
  • Henry David Thoreau during the Mexican American
    War
  • Socrates, Jesus, Gandhi, M. L. King, the Quakers

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Why?
  • To change unjust laws
  • To change peoples attitudes toward evil and
    injustice
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