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ghandi influences. During the 20th century many changes to history occurred
because of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is ...
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Submitted by kenwoodave on April 2, 2007
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During the 20th century many changes to history occurred because of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is a peaceful public violation or stand against laws that a person, group, or mass of people can orchestrate. People that commit acts of civil disobedience believe that this is the correct way to produce change in something they believe, and the need to prioritize one's believe over the dictates of laws, but to do so in a peaceful manner rather than in violent and harsh manners. Because of these acts of civil disobedience people all over the world have started to take a stand against things that they believe are unjust. I believe that Mahatma Gandhi was one of the main reasons this wave and revolution of civil disobedience occurred.
Although the idea of civil disobedience had been around long before Gandhi made the idea of civil disobedience well known throughout Europe, Asia, and the United states. Henry David Thoreau pioneered this modern theory in an essay he wrote in 1849 entitled "Civil Disobedience." In this essay Thoreau dictates and supports the idea of A person is not obligated to spend their life to eliminate evils from the world, but he is obligated not to participate in those evils. (Thoreau source 1).
A wonderful example of how this theory has played out in history is Mahatma Gandhi's widely unviversally known acts of civil disobedience. Gandhi was impressed with Thoreau's theory and he even quoted
"Thoreau was a great writer, philosopher, poet, and withal a most practical man, that is, he taught nothing he was not prepared to practise in himself. He was one of the greatest and most moral men America has produced. At the time of the abolition of slavery movement, he wrote his famous essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience". He went to gaol for the sake of his principles and suffering humanity. His essay has, therefore, been sanctified by suffering. Moreover, it is written for all time. Its incisive logic is unanswerable"...
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