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A 6 page paper which examines Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and Cesar Chavez as they relate to nonviolent protest. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of people who are protesting are often impassioned, and very valid, concerns and as such many people will turn to aggressive techniques in order to be heard and heeded. However,
there were some very powerful individuals in history who have made a difference in the world through their own development of the nonviolent approach to protesting. Henry David Thoreau, Martin
Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and Cesar Chavez are four such individuals. The following paper discusses the lives and philosophies of these men. Henry David Thoreau Thoreau is often
considered to be one of the most powerful advocates of nonviolence in relationship to protesting against unjust laws and conditions. For many people he is perhaps the founder of such
an approach and his work "Civil Disobedience" was read widely by noted figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. as well as Gandhi.
Written in 1849 Thoreau begins his essay with "I heartily accept the motto, That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to
more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe-That government is best which governs not at all" (Thoreau, 1849). In these words one can
perhaps argue that Thoreau was not a great supporter of government rule, and that anarchy was perhaps the most desirable goal, assuming people could behave well on their own.
At one point in the essay he discusses his time in prison, for being civilly disobedient. He spent one night in the prison which he states "was like travelling into
a far country, such as I had never expected to behold, to lie there for one night" (Thoreau, 1849). During this night he realized many different things, or noted many
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