Thoreau and Civil Disobedience [video]

[ljiljana]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gugnXTN6-D4

[spodek]

The original essay is eminently readable and, in my opinion, inspirational: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71.

Under 10,000 words, funny, and insightful. It tells of a man who didn't just complain but acted on his conscience. Gandhi and MLK followed in his footsteps.

[yarou]

"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience."

[gozur88 → yarou]

Which is a great attitude to take until you run into someone who's okay with having your dead body.

[drinkjuice → gozur88]

Killing the person you are to keep a person you're not alive for a bit and then still dying at some point seems like a really bad trade-off to me; and if all people always had thought that way, you and I would have been born chained to a wall.

[shinski]

Interesting, I had not realized how much today resembles the mid 19th century.

[sg47 → Proven]

Obomba? Seriously? You are commenting on the wrong website.

[lichform]

I'm glad to see that after 8 years civil disobedience is once again acceptable.