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Cover of "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau

"Civil Disobedience"

Henry David Thoreau · 1849

The essay that gave Gandhi and Martin Luther King their political philosophy. "The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right." Changed the world.

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