HU Civil Disobedience The Breaching Law & the Existing Status Quo Discussion
In “Resistance to Civil Government,” Thoreau famously advocates breaking unjust laws through non-violent resistance—an approach to social change that influenced Mahatma Gandhi’s liberation of India and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s actions during the Civil Rights movement. What characteristics of the America Identity does resisting unjust laws to bring about social change represent What other literary works we have studied this semester embody these characteristics?
