Civil Disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau delivered Civil Disobedience as a lecture in 1848 and published it a year later under the title "Resistance to Civil Government." He had spent a night in the Concord jail for refusing to pay a poll tax to a government that enforced slavery and was fighting a war of expansion in Mexico. A friend or relative paid the tax for him the next morning, which annoyed him. The essay argues that a citizen is not only permitted but oblig...