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Similarities Between Walden And Civil Disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau suggested, “People rest six days and work only on the seventh” (“Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862”). He proposed this in his commencement essay which means this quote was not his wish but his theory with his view. Henry David Thoreau that is one of American’s most famous authors is known as the writer of Walden and Civil Disobedience, a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a transcendentalist. Most commonly, many people associate Thoreau with his books, Walden and Civil Disobedience. In these books, he claimed self-sufficiency and self-government (“Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862”). Also, in Civil Disobedience, he adverted to his essay Resistance to Civil Government, and this affected Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King
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