Civil Disobedience

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Civil Disobedience

• What is it?
• Who did it?
• When?

2
What is it

• An essay by Henry David Thoreau
• Non violently disobeying an unjust law

3
Who did it?

• Henry David Thoreau during the Mexican American
  War
• Socrates, Jesus, Gandhi, M. L. King, the Quakers

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Why?

• To change unjust laws
• To change peoples attitudes toward evil and
  injustice