He practiced civil disobedience by not paying taxes to protest the war.
Henry David Thoreau.
Henry David Thoreau.
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau.
Thoreau was against the Mexican War (he didn't want further expansion of slave states) so he is bitter towards the government. Even if it's not the matter of the Mexican War, Thoreau doesn't like the government, like other Trensendentalists, he doesn't like powerful government controlling peope's lives.
Henry David Thoreau.
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience By Henry David Thoreau
The representative of the government that Thoreau meets once a year is the tax collector. Thoreau encounters him as part of his protest against the Mexican-American War and slavery, refusing to pay taxes to a government that supports these injustices.
Thoreau was critical of America's public attitude towards the Mexican-American War, as he believed it was driven by aggressive expansionism rather than principles of justice and morality. He famously protested the war and refused to pay his taxes in protest of the government's actions.
Civil disobedience is the act of peacefully breaking a law or rule to protest against unjust or unfair government actions. Henry David Thoreau's refusal to pay taxes in protest against the Mexican-American War and slavery is an example of civil disobedience. Thoreau believed in the moral obligation of individuals to resist unjust laws through nonviolent protest.
Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" is an essay that argues individuals have a moral duty to resist unjust laws through nonviolent protest and civil disobedience. Thoreau discusses his own experience of refusing to pay taxes in protest against slavery and the Mexican-American War, emphasizing the importance of individual conscience and autonomy in the face of government injustice.
The Mexican war.
Henry David Thoreau broke the law by refusing to pay taxes because he believed it supported unjust institutions like slavery and the Mexican-American War. He wanted to protest these injustices and demonstrate his commitment to civil disobedience as a form of protest against an unjust government.
To protest slavery
Henry David Thoreau as he writes in his essay "Civil Disobedience"
Henry David Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience as a form of protest against taxation. He spent the night in jail after refusing to pay a tax that would fund the Mexican War. He thought that submitting to the tax was being a slave to the government.