Civil Disobedience Audiobook (Free)

In the article ‘Civil Disobedience’ (1849), Henry David Thoreau contends that an individual should not allow the government to overrule their conscience, and that it is incumbent upon everyone in order to avoid acquiescence when the government attempts to create one a realtor of injustice. It really is thought that his inspiration for writing the essay was, at least in part, due to his revulsion with slavery and with the Mexican-American Battle of 1846 to 1848: ‘This people must cease to hold slaves, also to make battle on Mexico, though it cost them their living like a people.’ He also argues that it’s not appropriate to postpone one’s opposition to injustice until another election, but that 1 ought to rather take instant action to oppose something as wicked as slavery.