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On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is Henry David Thoreau’s timeless call to conscience over compliance. First published in 1849, this seminal essay challenges the moral legitimacy of governments that perpetuate slavery, injustice, and war. Thoreau argues that true allegiance belongs not to laws or institutions, but to one’s own conscience—and that when laws make us agents of injustice, the only ethical response is resistance.
Drawing from his own act of protest—refusing to pay taxes that supported the Mexican-American War and slavery—Thoreau makes a radical yet profoundly simple case: one honest person, willing to stand firm against wrongdoing, constitutes a “majority of one.” His words have since inspired movements for justice across the globe, from Gandhi’s campaign against colonial rule to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights struggle.
Provocative, uncompromising, and visionary, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience remains one of the most influential works of political philosophy, urging us to act not as subjects of a state, but as moral citizens of the world.
The Last Of The Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
Set in 1757 during the French and Indian War, The Last of the Mohicans is a tale of peril, loyalty, and survival in the American wilderness.
As British and French forces clash for control of the colonies, a small band of travelers—including the courageous sisters Cora and Alice Munro, Major Duncan Heyward, and the enigmatic scout Hawkeye—are led through the forest by Mohican chief Chingachgook and his son Uncas, the last of their line. Pursued by hostile Hurons and the vengeful Magua, they must rely on cunning, courage, and an unbreakable bond between cultures to endure the brutal frontier.
With vivid descriptions of the wild landscape and its peoples, Cooper weaves a story of romance and betrayal, of heroism and tragedy, capturing both the violence of empire and the dignity of Native resistance. First published in 1826, this enduring classic remains one of the most powerful works of early American literature—a timeless epic of honor, sacrifice, and the fading legacy of a vanishing people.
Vagabonding Through Changing Germany, Harry A. Franck
On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
Vagabonding Through Changing Germany, Harry A. Franck
In the uneasy years following World War I, celebrated travel writer Harry A. Franck journeyed across a defeated Germany, documenting the lives of ordinary people struggling to rebuild amid hunger, inflation, and political turmoil. With sharp eyes and candid prose, he captured the contradictions of a nation caught between collapse and reinvention: weary veterans, wary civilians, and restless youth searching for meaning in the ruins of empire.
But woven into his vivid accounts is something darker—the emergence of scapegoating and hostility toward Jewish communities, a bitter undercurrent that foreshadowed the catastrophes to come. Franck’s observations of early antisemitic rhetoric remind us that hatred rarely erupts suddenly; it germinates in moments of fear, instability, and national humiliation.
More than a travelogue, Vagabonding Through Changing Germany stands as both a historical snapshot and a cautionary tale. It shows how prejudice, left unchallenged, can take root and spread—an urgent lesson for readers today in an era still marked by rising intolerance and political extremism.
