... movement, and anti-war movements. Although many would point Henry David Thoreau as the father of civil disobedience, since he was the first person using the term when in 1848 he wrote "Resistance to Civil Government," there is existent records that show that civil ... 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 ... with its unjust, arbitrary, rep...

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... . 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" or in Gandhi ... the government of any say in national policy (Gandhi 115,116) Nonviolence is active. Although to some the word nonviolence implies passivity, nonviolence is actually an active...

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... freedom was not apparent among the American colonies until the rise of the Quakers. Dubbed "Quakers" from the report that they quaked when under deep religious emotion . . . Quakers advocated passive resistance . . . would turn the other cheek and rebuild their meetinghouse on the site where their enemies had torn it down (qtd. In Bailey, Kennedy, and Cohen, 58). These people were in ... shelved by the cause of women to fight for the rights of blacks, giving truth to this quote from Henry David Thoreau: "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are...

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