Essence
Why are you not practicing Civil Disobedience?
by SARTRE
The abstraction of dissent becoming successful reality, through the practice of civil disobedience, is most closely associated with Mahatma Gandhi. The fate of over half a billion population, was transformed out of the convictions and actions of an uncommon and extraordinary mystic. Whatever your sentiments about colonial rule and empire, none can deny that the independence of India would have a very different face, without the man in the home-spun loincloth and traditional shawl.
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Complement
Nullifying Civil Disobedience
by George F. Smith
Americans today should gave thanks we don't live in colonial times. Back then we would be surrounded by traitors who had serious grievances with the law, especially the part that taxed them. Lacking a sound public education, these upstarts didn't understand that a great empire like Britain needed massive transfusions of revenue to sustain it. In their ignorance the rebels armed themselves with guns (!) and overthrew the government.
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