jonny2mad
03-26-2009, 01:03 PM
two of my favourite books normally civil disobedience is in with walden its quite short and well worth reading .
basically these two books inspired gandi martin luthur king nelson mandela and pretty much everyone into simple living .
thoreau lived in a small one room cabin he built very simply, he was a naturalist and during his life most people would have thought a bit of a failure , he went to jail once for refusing to pay a poll tax spent one night in jail, people he knew paid the tax without him knowing he wouldnt have wanted them to pay .
he was released and he went back to his cabin and wrote civil disobedience which was largely ignored while he lived .
basically civil disobedience talks about your duty to oppose injustice gandi read it and it had a profound effect on him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z0o_MAU0ao&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCjtgWQR5RM&feature=channel_page
walden as a audio book
http://librivox.org/walden-by-henry-david-thoreau/
civil disobedience as a audio book
http://librivox.org/on-the-duty-of-civil-disobedience-by-henry-david-thoreau/
you can find both texts online you ought to listen to civil disobedience and walden too , and think about people being arrested for not sitting in the back of the bus , and why the policeman arrested someone for not sitting in the back of the bus even if to them it was a unjust law .
why did people choose to be jailed to oppose unjust laws
basically these two books inspired gandi martin luthur king nelson mandela and pretty much everyone into simple living .
thoreau lived in a small one room cabin he built very simply, he was a naturalist and during his life most people would have thought a bit of a failure , he went to jail once for refusing to pay a poll tax spent one night in jail, people he knew paid the tax without him knowing he wouldnt have wanted them to pay .
he was released and he went back to his cabin and wrote civil disobedience which was largely ignored while he lived .
basically civil disobedience talks about your duty to oppose injustice gandi read it and it had a profound effect on him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z0o_MAU0ao&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCjtgWQR5RM&feature=channel_page
walden as a audio book
http://librivox.org/walden-by-henry-david-thoreau/
civil disobedience as a audio book
http://librivox.org/on-the-duty-of-civil-disobedience-by-henry-david-thoreau/
you can find both texts online you ought to listen to civil disobedience and walden too , and think about people being arrested for not sitting in the back of the bus , and why the policeman arrested someone for not sitting in the back of the bus even if to them it was a unjust law .
why did people choose to be jailed to oppose unjust laws