Concept of Civil Disobedience 
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Thoreau and
King shared the view that there was much injustice in society, that it had to be confronted and eliminated, and that it should be done through both ....
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Moral Responsibility to Disobey Unjust Laws?
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Thoreau and
King on the grounds that a person who chooses to live under the dictates of a government must choose to obey those ....
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Rodney King Trial Reactions
.... Serrano, Richard A. "
King Case Shifts to Courtroom in Simi Valley." Los Angeles Times, 4 February 1992, A1. Steele, Shelby. ....
Thoreau, Henry David. ....
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Thoreau on Civil Disobedience
.... Civil disobedience is a part of the American social fabric not simply because of
Thoreau and Martin Luther
King but because the nation started with an act of ....
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Both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. w
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King wanted first class citizenship for African Americans. .... Nonreligious authors such as Henry David
Thoreau and Leo Tolstoy likewise influenced Gandhi's ....
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Dorothy Day, Malcolm X & Martin Luther King, Jr.
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King's most powerful messages was written from a prison cell. His "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" echoes the social conscience of henry David
Thoreau, who ....
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Compassionate Nonviolent Resistance
.... of nonviolent resistance from colonial America to its height with Reverend
King. .... evolved into a theory of political resistance by Henry David
Thoreau. ....
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Ethics: When is justifiable to violate the law?
.... provocative actions. Commitment, engagement, and responsibility distinguish the thought and action of Socrates,
Thoreau, and
King. That is ....
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Thoreau-Resistance to Civil Govt.
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Thoreau than blind obedience to a powerful majority. We see this philosophy woven into the ideologies of both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther
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The Developing Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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King cites his reading of
Thoreau's essay "On Civil Disobedience" as a formative lesson in "creative protest" (Carson 14). ....
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ML King, Jr. & Socrates
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King, Jr.'s method was one based on Christian values and the non-violent resistance philosophy of Henry David
Thoreau and Mahatma Ghandi. ....
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The Civil Rights Movement
.... Haskins notes as well that both Gandhi and
King were influenced by Henry David
Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience."
King was instrumental in the Montgomery ....
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Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
.... Haskins notes as well that both Gandhi and
King were influenced by Henry David
Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience."
King was instrumental in the Montgomery ....
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Strategies for fighting Social Injustice
.... question. Martin Luther
King Jr. and .... just. Liberal civil disobedience has its roots in the work of Henry David
Thoreau.
Thoreau ....
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TRANSCENDENTALISM
.... recent history have taken their intellectual sustenance from
Thoreau's writings. Prominent in our century are Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther
King, Jr., two ....
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THE NEW ENGLAND RENAISSANCE
.... ways are characteristics of their characters, whereas Emerson and
Thoreau view mankind .... human rights activists like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther
King, Jr. ....
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Industrial Society and its Future
.... of the means of production (ie laborers) could be mounted using the passive-resistance and social disobedience methods of
Thoreau, Gandhi and
King, I believe ....
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Socrates - Analysis of a Painting
.... his iconoclasm in questioning idolatry, his honesty left the Earth with him only to occasionally return in the likes of
Thoreau, Gandhi, Martin Luther
King Jr. ....
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Freedom Riders
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King, a devotee of the principles of civil disobedience and non-violent resistance first developed by Henry
Thoreau and practiced by Mahatma Gandhi during the ....
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The Dialectic of Freedom
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King believed that relentless resistance would bring change ....
Thoreau saw, for example, that the country was heading toward an overly industrialized, capitalistic ....
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Montgomery Bus Boycott Final
.... be united.
King's views of nonviolent resistance were based on the philosophy of Gandhi and Henry David
Thoreau. However before ....
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Narrative of Life of American Slave
.... 1574) state as "machines, with their bodies" (1565), distances
Thoreau from the .... prove powerful in eliciting criticism, as with Martin Luther
King, Jr., this ....
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The Theme of Alienation in Literature
.... whom he has established himself, half god and half
king, half aggrandized .... he manages to accomplish--his method closely resembling
Thoreau's "passive resistance ....
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Winesburg, Ohio & Spoon River Anthology
.... Burbank, indeed, sees a direct parallel between
Thoreau's comment and Anderson's description of .... In "A Man of Ideas," Tom
King constantly has what he perceives ....
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Winesburg, Ohio and Spoon River Anthology: A Comparison
.... Burbank, indeed, sees a direct parallel between
Thoreau's comment and Anderson's description of .... In "A Man of Ideas," Tom
King constantly has what he perceives ....
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Maslow's Personality Theory Applied to Bill Clinton
.... the people he included were Lincoln, Jefferson, Walt Whitman,
Thoreau, Beethoven, Eleanor .... his wife--or to the influence of the feminist seventies (
King, 1993, p ....
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Minimalism & Ann Beattie
.... a function of a narrative nihilism, an evocation of what Martin Luther
King, Jr .... She depicts the lives of quiet desperation that
Thoreau simply claimed the great ....
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4 Essays on Key Events of US History
.... The strategy promoted by Martin Luther
King was a strategy of nonviolence, and it served .... was derived by Gandhi a well from the works of Henry David
Thoreau. ....
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Freud's View of Women and Culture
.... in another context called "the bleakness of nagging despair" (
King 91). .... She depicts the lives of quiet desperation that
Thoreau declared the great mass of men ....
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Character Learning
.... and three for society (Houston, 1998, 6). Carnes' work on public education and character education are built on
Thoreau's "three chairs .... Martin Luther
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