Adverse reaction as a result of action takes place in Plato's Five Dialogues, Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and The Marquis De Sade's Justine. ... Thoreau's affirmation of the validity of individuality is evident throughout his work entitled Walden and Civil Disobedience. Thoreau believed that the majority of societies were merely minions of a domineering governmental institution. ... Thoreau is harsh in his critique of soldiers and other individuals in the military. ... Thoreau identifies a fu...

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Outsiders Coming In Because the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was a national organization that worked to support local, grassroots campaigns for civil rights, they wee often accused of being outside agitators. ... SCLC trained local communities in the philosophy of Christian nonviolence, and through its affiliation with churches and its advocacy of nonviolence, sought to put the struggle for civil rights in moral terms. ... s concept of active resistance/civil disobedience. ... The scale of protest and police brutality of the Birmingham Campaign created a new level of visibility for...

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