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Lubov Fominskaja [6]
3 years ago
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Most people remember Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as reformers who practiced non-violent forms of protest and advocacy

. Both effectively changed the popular opinion about emotional issues for their countries and brought in a wave of change that was long overdue. But the practice of non-violent protest, or civil disobedience, started long before either Gandhi or King. It began with a quiet, shy poet who is best known for writing a lot about a pond. Henry David Thoreau lived from 1817 until 1862, mainly in the area of Concord, Massachusetts. The issue that would tear the country apart in the 1860s had already begun dividing the nation. Thoreau was only 14 when Nat Turner led the slave rebellion in Virginia and was later hanged. In his late 20s, Thoreau began speaking against slavery in public, echoing the voices of freedmen like Frederick Douglass and Lewis Hayden. Thoreau believed that a government that supported slavery was corrupt and immoral. He was also deeply suspicious of government. For these and other reasons, Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax for a number of years. The poll tax was a legal tax owed by every person. It was basically a tax on one's body. After not paying for years, he was at last arrested. He spent only one night in jail, however, as a relative paid the tax for him. He was reportedly furious that any tax was paid on his behalf. It was this experience that Thoreau wrote about in an essay called "Civil Disobedience." In this essay, he argued that being moral and just came before allegiance to government. He wrote “If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law." He also felt that voting was not enough to ensure that the right thing be done. He wrote that "even voting for the right is doing nothing for it… A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance…" He felt that one had a moral responsibility to resist unjust laws. Which line from Part 1 best explains its main point? But the practice of non-violent protest, or civil disobedience, started long before either Gandhi or King. The issue that would tear the country apart in the 1860s had already begun dividing the nation. Thoreau believed that a government that supported slavery was corrupt and immoral. In this essay, he argued that being moral and just came before allegiance to government.
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erastovalidia [21]3 years ago
7 0
This excerpt shows that while Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi are two of the most widely known civil protesters they are not the first nor the most important.
yulyashka [42]3 years ago
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Answer:

Explanation: Here the speaker wishes to convey the readers regarding the ideas propagated by two renowned reformers Gandhi and Martin Luther King that these ideas are somehow influenced by Henry David Thoreau. Here he suggests that the practice of non-violent resistance began much earlier than by these reformers began propagating them. The speaker hereby is advocating the efforts of Thoreau who advised that immoral acts by government have to be resisted by individual actions like non-cooperation, civil disobedience etc. In this excerpt it is very evident that both Gandhi and King fostered many of Thoreau's thoughts in their protest, be it Satyagraha in India or be it Civil rights movement in the United States. <em>Later, the efforts of Thoreau against the disgust of slavery and the Mexican War is advocated by the speaker. His idea of not giving up against the decisions of morally corrupt government and letting the individual's conscience to be ruled over or being treated as inferior.</em>

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