... preach it. Carried by the motto "that government is best which governs least,"[Thoreau] Henry David Thoreau, defines "Civil Disobedience" as "a pacific act of willful resistance, achieved by not obeying laws he considers to be unmoral and unjust [Thoreau]." History shows us that civil disobedience is merely necessary when the relatively minorities face the majorities, who enact laws that ... unjust, arbitrary, repressive measures, must be done away with [Gol14]. But, how to act against this authoritarian machine? What does Thoreau, and Goldman with their revolutionary ideals of civil dis...

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... attention that change in social structure was unavoidable. Gandhi did not think up civil disobedience by himself, he read many books on the subject including Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience. Gandhi was very impressed with Thoreau's writings stating, "[Thoreau] taught nothing he was not prepared to practice himself" (Thoreau 422). Nonviolent civil disobedience is referred to as Satyagraha in India, meaning literally "clinging to truth ... world to this day. There is long and noble tradition of nonviolent protest in this country, including Harriet Tubman's Underground R...

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