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A Plea for Captain John Brown

A Plea for Captain John Brown  is an essay by  Henry David Thoreau . It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at  Concord, Massachusetts  on  October 30 , 1859 , two weeks a ...

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

" Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing suc ...

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