SynopsisInexpensive but substantial, this anthology begins with Thoreau's great 19th-century essay and concludes in the present day. Selections include Tolstoy's ""I Cannot Be Silent,"" Bertrand Russell's ""Civil Disobedience and the Threat of Nuclear Warfare,"" and speeches and writings by Gandhi, Emma Goldman, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Dalai Lama, Andrei Sakharov, and many others., Inexpensive but substantial anthology begins with Thoreau's 19th-century essay and concludes in the present day. Contributors include Tolstoy, Bertrand Russell, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, others., Inexpensive but substantial, this anthology ranges from Henry David Thoreau's great nineteenth-century polemics "Civil Disobedience" and "Slavery in Massachusetts" to more recent writings by Aung San Suu Kyi as well as Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of the subversive Russian rock group Pussy Riot. Additional selections include Leo Tolstoy's denouncement of capital punishment, "I Cannot Be Silent"; Bertrand Russell's "Civil Disobedience and the Threat of Nuclear Warfare"; and "Love, Law, and Civil Disobedience" and "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. Other contributors include William Lloyd Garrison, Albert Einstein, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Editor Bob Blaisdell provides an informative Introduction.
LC Classification NumberJC328.3