Mentor chat — On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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a close-reading companion for Thoreau's essay, here to help you read Henry David Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience closely — its argument for individual conscience over majority rule, its historical occasion, and its long afterlife.
The Argument
Context & Legacy
Based on "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau