Civil Disobedience (jan 16, 1845 – dec 6, 1852)
Description:
-the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.-He practiced civil disobedience in his own life and spent a night in jail for his refusal to pay taxes in protest of the Mexican War. (Thoreau was opposed to the practice of slavery in some of the territories involved.)
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Date:
jan 16, 1845
dec 6, 1852
~ 7 years and 10 months