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This is a 4 page paper that provides an overview of Thoreau and the Occupy Wall Street protests. Evidence from "Civil Disobedience" is cited to suggest that Thoreau would approve. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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ultimate efficacy the protests will have in terms of affecting policy and the shape of politics going into the future, it is worth questioning that status: do the Occupy Wall
Street protests really qualify as a form of civil disobedience? To answer this question, one might turn to the progenitor of the phrase, Henry David Thoreau, and his eponymous treatise
on the topic of initiating governmental change through the act of protest. Certainly, a superficial examination of Thoreaus sentiments on the topic seems to be in allegiance with those advocating
for government change; his treatise opens with the proclamation that he "heartily accept[s] the motto - that government is best which governs least" (Thoreau 2011). However, it is still necessary
to discuss particular aspects of the Occupy Wall Street protests and find their supporting analogue in Thoreaus work. Ultimately, it stands to reason that Thoreau would indeed support the contemporary
Occupy Wall Street protests on the grounds of his belief that the government should hold a form that is able to be respected by the people, that corporations should be
operated with a conscience, and that those who disagree with an institution should withdraw their support from that institution. Firstly, one might suppose that Thoreau would support the Occupy
Wall Street protests due to his assertion that individuals should demand a government which is worthy of their respect. In the early passages of "Civil Disobedience", he writes "let every
man make known what kind of government would command his respect" (Thoreau, 2011). Indeed, this is what many of the Occupy Wall Street protestors are doing; through making their grievances
with the dramatic economic disparity apparent in the United States known, they are, at least passively, advocating for a more respectable form of government: one in which economic disparity is
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