Today, the essay also appears under the title On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, perhaps to contrast it with William Paley's Of the Duty of Civil Obedience to which Thoreau was in part responding.

The story opens with a passage from Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau.

He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

He is best known for his books Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

* Anna Hazare, 2011 Civil Disobedience in India for Jan Lokpal Bill ( Citizen's ombudsman Bill )

He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

Thoreau is sometimes cited as an anarchist, and though Civil Disobedience seems to call for improving rather than abolishing government —" I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government "— the direction of this improvement points toward anarchism: "' That government is best which governs not at all '; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

" Richard Drinnon partly blames Thoreau for the ambiguity, noting that Thoreau's " sly satire, his liking for wide margins for his writing, and his fondness for paradox provided ammunition for widely divergent interpretations of ' Civil Disobedience.

He first read Civil Disobedience " while he sat in a South African prison for the crime of nonviolently protesting discrimination against the Indian population in the Transvaal.

Among the works on anarchism by Comfort is Peace and Disobedience ( 1946 ), one of many pamphlets he wrote for Peace News and the Peace Pledge Union, and Authority and Delinquency in the Modern State ( 1950 ).

In 1947, Randolph, along with colleague Grant Reynolds, renewed efforts to end discrimination in the armed services, forming the Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service, later renamed the League for Non-Violent Civil Disobedience.

** Cory Aquino leaves for Cebu to continue the Civil Disobedience Campaign.

In 1947, A. Philip Randolph, along with colleague Grant Reynolds, renewed efforts to end discrimination in the armed services, forming the Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training, later renamed the League for Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation.

* The Penalty of Death for Disobedience by Leroy Edwin Froom, The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers

He is best known for his books Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

Henry David Thoreau ( July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 ; was an American author, development critic, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is famous for Walden, on simple living amongst nature, and Civil Disobedience.

The squares of vice or evil are: Disobedience ( 41 ), Vanity ( 44 ), Vulgarity ( 49 ), Theft ( 52 ), Lying ( 58 ), Drunkenness ( 62 ), Debt ( 69 ), Rage ( 84 ), Greed ( 92 ), Pride ( 95 ), Murder ( 73 ), and Lust ( 99 ).

At war's end, his popularity steadily increased, with works such as La Romana ( The Woman of Rome ) ( 1947 ), La Disubbidienza ( Disobedience ) ( 1948 ), L ' Amore Coniugale e altri racconti (" Conjugal Love and other stories ") ( 1949 ) and Il Conformista (" The Conformist ") ( 1951 ).

A version was taken up by the author Henry David Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience, and later by Gandhi in his doctrine of Satyagraha.

Thus, by the time Thoreau's lectures were first published under the title " Civil Disobedience ," in 1866, four years after his death, the term had achieved fairly widespread usage.

* Civil Disobedience, an essay written by Henry David Thoreau

* " Civil Disobedience " by Peter Suber, originally in Christopher B.

Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau's work, particularly Civil Disobedience, as did " right-wing theorist Frank Chodorov devoted an entire issue of his monthly, Analysis, to an appreciation of Thoreau.

Disobedience to unlawful orders is the obligation of every member of the U. S. armed forces, a principle established by the Nuremberg trials and reaffirmed in the aftermath of the My Lai Massacre.

* The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform by Henry David Thoreau, Wendell Glick, editor, ( 2004 ) ISBN 0-691-11876-0.

He wrote that it is “ only when people have proved their active loyalty by obeying the many laws of the State that they acquire the right of Civil Disobedience .”

Incidents included: the protests against the Simon Commission Report ; the Nehru Report ; the All-Parties Conference ; the Muslim League leader Mohammad Ali Jinnah's 14 points ; the Civil Disobedience Movement launched by the Indian National Congress under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi ; and the Round Table Conferences.

The term " electronic civil disobedience " was coined by a book with that name, the Critical Art Ensemble ’ s ( 1996 ) Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas.

Free Radio, Electronic Civil Disobedience by Lawrence Soley

* The Electronic Civil Disobedience project, an online political performance-art group, attacks the Pentagon calling it conceptual art and claiming it to be a protest against the U. S. support of the suppression of rebels in southern Mexico by the Mexican government.

Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930 has also been participated by many people of the district.

During the Civil Disobedience Movement, the Wadala Salt Works was raided by around 1, 500 volunteers of the Congress party on June 1st 1930.

Resistance to Civil Government ( Civil Disobedience ) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849.

Others who are said to have been influenced by Civil Disobedience include: President John F. Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and various writers such as, Marcel Proust, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, and William Butler Yeats.

* The Theory, Practice, and Influence of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience by Lawrence Rosenwald

* Henry David Thoreau and " Civil Disobedience " by Wendy McElroy

* Introduction by Howard Zinn, The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform

* " All Things New: On Civil Disobedience Now " by Steven Schroeder, Essays in Philosophy, Vol.

# Disobedience: Those who disobey certain direct instructions from the head of the religion.

The essay Civil Disobedience ( Resistance to Civil Government ) was first published in 1849.

Thoreau's 1848 essay Civil Disobedience, originally titled " Resistance to Civil Government ", has had a wide influence on many later practitioners of civil disobedience.

Henry David Thoreau's classic essay Civil Disobedience ( Thoreau ) | Civil Disobedience inspired Martin Luther King and many other activists.

Thoreau's 1849 essay " Resistance to Civil Government " was eventually renamed " Essay on Civil Disobedience.

ACT-UP's Civil Disobedience Training handbook states that a civil disobedient who pleads guilty is essentially stating, " Yes, I committed the act of which you accuse me.

They either dismissed or ignored his political essays, including Civil Disobedience.

Why I actually took the name of my movement from Thoreau's essay ' On the Duty of Civil Disobedience ,' written about 80 years ago.

Martin Luther King, Jr. noted in his autobiography that his first encounter with the idea of non-violent resistance was reading " On Civil Disobedience " in 1944 while attending Morehouse College.

" The Influence of Thoreau's ' Civil Disobedience ' on Gandhi's Satyagraha.