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Thoreau first gave the text as a lecture at the Concord Lyceum in early 1848 and published it in 1849, under the title “Resistance to Civil Government”, in Aesthetic Papers, a volume edited by Elizabeth Peabody; the familiar title “Civil Disobedience” appeared only in a posthumous edition of 1866. The occasion was a night in jail in July 1846 after he refused to pay a poll tax in protest against slavery and the war against Mexico. The essay asks whether a citizen must ever resign his conscience to the legislator, and answers that one should be a human being first and a subject afterwards. Gandhi and Martin Luther King both referred to it.

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نص كامل مجاني، وغالبًا طبعة أو ترجمة أقدم

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جرى تناوله في

• هند سواراج1909 · مهاتما غاندي
• خطوة نحو الحرية: قصة مونتغمري (Stride Toward Freedom)1958 · مارتن لوثر كينغ الابن

مزيد من أعمال هنري ديفيد ثورو

• 1854والدن