In Civil Disobedience and Other Essays, philosopher Henry David Thoreau shares his thoughts about five different topics: Civil Disobedience (1849), Slavery in Massachusetts (1854), A Plea for Captain John Brown (1860), Walking (1862) and Life without Principle. One of the principal figures of Transcendentalism, Thoreau inspires us through these five essays to think for ourselves and to follow our conscious. In the essay Civil Disobedience Thoreau writes: “Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them; or shall we endeavor to amend them and obey them until we have succeeded; or shall we transgress them at once?”
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