He was a nonconformist who believed, among other things, that no one should do what is against their own will. He was trying to prove that though we live in a free country, he was more free than those who conformed and payed their taxes.
Henry David Thoreau practiced civil disobedience by refusing to pay his poll tax in protest against the U.S. government's involvement in the Mexican-American War and support of slavery. Thoreau's act was a way to show his refusal to support unjust laws and to peacefully resist government actions that went against his beliefs in individual conscience and morality.
In 1846 Thoreau refused to pay six years of delinquent poll taxes, in opposition to the Mexican War and to slavery. He spent one night in jail and was freed when someone paid the taxes over his objections.
Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau.
Henry David Thoreau
"Civil Disobedience" was an essay written by Henry David Thoreau, published in 1849
Civil disobedience is the doctrine that was promoted by Henry David Thoreau. Civil Disobedience was written and published by Henry David Thoreau in 1849.
His theory was the idea of non violent civil disobedience
Henry David Thoreau as he writes in his essay "Civil Disobedience"
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Henry David Thoreau. Either of them is arguably the founder/inventor of civil disobedience.
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau.
The essay was named "Civil Disobedience" and it was written by Henry David Thoreau, a prominent transcendentalist, to protest the Mexican-American War and slavery.