Assertion: civil disobedience | /r/HasProperty | essay
Facets:
value: by henry david thoreau
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Civil Disobedience (1849) is an essay by Henry David Thoreau expressing his belief that people should not allow governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences and that people have a duty both to avoid doing injustice directly and to avoid allowing their acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice.