Pt. 6, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (tags)
Thoreau despised the thought of his tax dollars going to the state, which he opposed, that enslaved people, and was carrying out a senseless war against Mexico.
Pt. 4, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (tags)
Thoreau's essay became the most influential of his writings, serving, for example, as a model for Ghandi's campaign of passive resistence in India, and as a handbook for the underground in Nazi-occupied Europe.