num_pages: 56
description: One of the most important texts of American political thought, Civil Disobediance eloquently states a position that has influenced the thinking of Gandhi, Martin Luther King &amp; many figures of the protests in the 1960s against the Vietnam War. Thoreau argues that "the progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual." "There will never be a really free &amp; enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher &amp; independent power, from which all its own power &amp; authority are derived, &amp; treats him accordingly."Author of Walden, Thoreau is one of the 19th century's great American thinkers.
language: English
title: Civil Disobedience
titlecomplete: Civil Disobedience
genres: 19th Century, Essays, Classics, Political Science, History, Politics, Philosophy, American, Nonfiction, School
ratings_count: 16368
publisher: Green Integer 41