Essays on Civil Disobedience

During the late 1970s, in the time of the war against Mexico and the U.S., in this time there we many abolitionists, that were speaking out on matters of the government concerning the people that no one else wanted to speak about. In the editorial…

Civil disobedience is responsible for many of the rights that we take for granted today. This is because the liberal movements of the past were all civilly disobedient to the status quo, and that is how they made progress. Without civil disobedience such social progress…

Henry Thoreau- Civil Disobedience Thoreau thinks that the most ethical and moral government is one that does not exist. Thoreau believes “that government is best which governs not at all”. Thoreau believes it is up to the people to become moral and ethical without the…