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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau · 1849 · Essay, Philosophy
The essay that taught the world to say no. Thoreau's defiant classic on conscience versus the state — the text that inspired Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
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This edition
- Title
- On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- Author
- Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
- First published
- 1849
- Illustrated plates
- 34 original artworks · 18 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 1 · about 9,543 words
- Reading time
- 38 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- July 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #71
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