Thoreau and Civil Disobedience [video]

Thoreau and Civil Disobedience [video](youtube.com)

85 points by ljiljana 9 years ago | 7 comments

spodek 9 years ago |

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 9 years ago |

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

gozur88 9 years ago | |

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

drinkjuice 9 years ago | | |

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 9 years ago |

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

lichform 9 years ago |

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