Virtues on Self Government Born in Concord, Massachusetts, the popular Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau lived a very simple life which led him to his popular essay "On Civil Disobedience." Thoreau lived a very unique life and he based his writings on many of his fufullling principles. ... Thoreau's concept of "Government is best which governs the least"(CD 35). ... Those statements made by Thoreau in 1894 still holds true in 2003. ... Thoreau's "Declaration of the Independence for the Conscious," reflects his belief in using nonviolent but complete resistance to an unjust g...

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In his essay "Civil Disobedience", Henry David 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?" (Thoreau). ... Movements for civil rights, gender equality, and war resistance, for example, have nudged America closer to its citizens' ideals of freedom and equality. ...

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"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so," founding father Thomas Jefferson expressed. "Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessn...

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