Thoreau argues that individual conscience outranks civil law, and defends his refusal to pay taxes to a government that upholds slavery and wages an unjust war.
Books mentioned in Civil Disobedience (1)
My Prisons by Silvio Pellico: “This is the whole history of "My Prisons."”
Books that mention Civil Disobedience (2)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion: “reading list at Joan Baez's Institute for the Study of Nonviolence: "...Thoreau's On Civil Disobedience, Krishnamurti's The First and Last Freedom..."”
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn: “printed as an essay, 'Civil Disobedience': It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law...”