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    Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience espouses the need to prioritize one’s conscience over the dictates of laws. It criticizes American social institutions and policies. He contends that people’s first obligation is to do what they believe is right and not to follow the law dictated by the majority. When a government is unjust‚ people should refuse to follow the law and distance themselves from the government in general. A person is not obligated to devote his or her life to eliminating evils from the world

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    Civil disobedience is a key part of the rights that all Americans now have. Civil disobedience allows for the people to take a stand against rules and regulations that they do not agree with. From movements such as ending slavery‚ women voting‚ and racial equality‚ civil disobedience was a major factor in getting the attention of those who had the position to make a change. Rosa Parks wouldn’t give up her seat on a bus‚ which brought national attention to rising concerns of racial equality in

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    Civil disobedience is a not a viable way of protesting or showing a disagreement towards the government. Examples of why civil disobedience is a bad strategy to get a point across are how it didn’t help in democracy‚ it doesn’t usually change what the people are against‚ and it is not any more effective than other tactics. Civil disobedience did not help in democracy during 1848 until 1920‚ women had to fight to gain freedom. When quiet protests weren’t enough‚ they had to find an alternative. Brave

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    Thoreau wrote “Civil Disobedience”‚ in 1849‚ to explain his distrust for the government. He focuses greatly on how the government is actively working against the people. Thoreau also discusses all throughout his essay about how the ones who serve our country are not considered as important as the ones within the cabinet. In an excerpt from “Civil Disobedience”‚ Thoreau uses pathos to show how the government is corrupt by using strategic syntax‚ similes‚ and metaphors. In “Civil Disobedience”‚ Thoreau

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    In this essay‚ I will explain why civil disobedience was the most important concept for Gandhi. He believed that non- violence was superior that violence‚ because it does not harm anyone but it awakens the peaceful spirit causing conscious suffering. I will discuss how civil disobedience can be more powerful than guns and my views on the subject. I will provide examples of the drawbacks of civil disobedience and in which situations is not appropriate. I will go into further detail on the correct

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    The debate was thrust into a hotbed of discussion during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. In 1964‚ Morris I. Leibman was an avid anti-civil disobedience activist. He argued that there is no reason for any citizen to find an excuse to break the law because when people agree to enter society‚ they accept the rules that society establishes. Once you break

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    Ritter AP Language Period 5 December 18‚ 2015 Civil Disobedience In 1968‚ close to 50 years ago‚ Martin Luther King‚ Jr. was killed by an assassin’s bullet. He had given us a decade of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience during the civil rights movement of the 1950’s. While the idea of nonviolent protest was still relatively new‚ MLK hadn’t invented it; he had been one of a few who pioneered the idea and made it popular. The theory of civil disobedience can be traced back to an essay by Henry David

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    Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was little known outside his hometown of Concord‚ Massachusetts‚ where he was much admired for his passionate stance on social issues‚ his deep knowledge of natural history‚ and the originality of his lectures‚ essays‚ and books. He was also maligned as a crank and malingerer who never held a steady job and whose philosophy was but a pale imitation of Ralph Waldo Emerson ’s. Thoreau was a man of ideas who struggled all his

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    Civil Disobedience is an insightful peaceful and in many cases more effective than simple violence at addressing ills in society. If one wishes to partake in civil disobedience they must follow three rules or steps‚ one they must identify an ill in society usually involving governmental oppression. second they need to break said laws or or rules they see ill. And thirdly and possibly most important they must accept all punishment without retaliation or resistance. Another major factor in civil disobedience

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    said‚ ”Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of people‚ especially when they have no effective voice in their own government‚ but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.” Civil disobedience is the refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy‚ characterized by the employment of such nonviolent techniques as boycotting‚ picketing‚ and nonpayment of taxes. I believe that civil disobedience is an effective

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