Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience on the Groups Who Used Passive Resistance to Reach Their Goals

Introduction

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) was the trend transcendentalist of the Puritan origin. He was one of the most proclaimed writer, poet and philosopher and the author of Walden and Civil Disobedience. He was also the lecturer, naturalist and regarded as the father of American literature. The practices of civil disobedience were conceptualized through the ecology and environmental ethics. The birth of civil disobedience took place in 1846, when Thoreau refused to pay taxes because of his opposition to war with Mexico and slavery in the United States, for which he was imprisoned. From this fact comes his treatise Civil disobedience, a pioneer in proposing ideas like pacifism and nonviolence to resurface strongly in the alter globalism the twentieth century. The book talks about one of the main concepts of ideology that is the idea that the government should not have more power than citizens are willing to grant, reaching the point that proposes the abolition of all government. His writings were famous among the law practitioners like Gandhi and Lev Tolstoy.

With no revolutionary declarations, as the abolition of the government, Henry David Thoreau supported civil disobedience when the governments were following an injustice, what we deem to be a dreadful deed. He says that if the government decides to go to war against another country, and we criticize this resolution, we will be rejecting the direct representativeness of the government and will be held as a prison. The government was using the tax collection for the charity of war fare, According to the logic of Thoreau, if a thousand men were not to pay their taxes this year, this initiative would not be a violent and bloody than that which would be to resolve, and thus enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood (Walker, pp 36). This defines a peaceful revolution; to the extent such is possible. To do this, he says, to prevent a collector or a bailiff removed the wealth of the citizen disobedience, we must be careful to accumulate assets, and instead "rent a few acres, although not settle and produce a small harvest for immediate consumption. It also criticizes thousands of people who on principle opposed to slavery and war, but which in practice do nothing to stop It.: they deplore, and petitioning is planted hands in pockets, waiting, "with kindness, that other remedy the evil, to not have to deplore.

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Gandhi: and India seeking independence from Britain

Mohandas Gandhi preached and practiced Satyagraha. He supported independence for India and told his followers to do what they could to make life difficult for their British rulers. But he was insistent that they not use violence, even to defend themselves. Gandhi believed that violence was an unnecessary evil. Further, they would win support of others through their peaceful behavior. Terms commonly associated with Gandhi are civil disobedience and passive résistance. Gandhi's most famous campaign of civil disobedience was the Salt ...