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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau & Letter from Birmingham Jail by King

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau & Letter from Birmingham Jail by King

This book pairs Henry David Thoreau’s lengthy essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” and Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Civil Disobedience was first published in 1849. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a […]