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Civil disobedience 18495/26/2023 I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave’s government also.” “How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. Today we celebrate the spirit of “Civil Disobedience,” also sometimes called “Resistance to Civil Government,” or “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.” In the following passages, Thoreau calls us to disobey a state that commands us to kill, enslave, and subjugate – or to pay for others to do the same. Part of the essay recounts his night in jail as a war tax resister, while other sections call on people to act in their own ways against state violence. His essay, “Civil Disobedience” (1849), has influenced thousands of protesters, war tax resisters, and direct action practitioners over the years. Henry David Thoreau was born 200 years ago on July 12, 1817.
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