The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Used [Mass Market Paperback]

"If the law is of such nature that it??requires you to be an agent of injustice to another,??then I say, break the law." In 1849, the young??Henry David Thoreau, philosopher, poet,??naturalist, penned these timeless words in his??Civil Disobedience. Three years earlier??Thoreau had refused to pay taxes to the government,??which was engaged in the Mexican War. He condemned??the war as unjust--a war never formally declared,??begun without Congressional authorization, a??savage and bloody war fought to assuage the United??States' territorial ambitions. For his courageous and??unprecedented act of protest, he was thrown in??jail. Thoreau was a man of the future. Over the??past century, his action has had worldwide??repercussions. Tolstoy was influenced by his stand, and??Gandhi based his passive resistance campaign on the??words of the philosopher of Walden Pond. Now,??Thoreau's action take on a new relevance. The??Night Thoreau Spent In Jail is an??essential work for today's??world.

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Used [Mass Market Paperback]