Essays on Civil Disobedience

Inexpensive but substantial, this anthology ranges from Henry David Thoreau's great nineteenth-century polemics "e;Civil Disobedience"e; and "e;Slavery in Massachusetts"e; 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, "e;I Cannot Be Silent"e;; Bertrand Russell's "e;Civil Disobedience and the Threat of Nuclear Warfare"e;; and "e;Love, Law, and Civil Disobedience"e; and "e;Letter from Birmingham City Jail"e; by Martin Luther King, Jr. Other contributors include William Lloyd Garrison, Albert Einstein, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Editor Bob Blaisdell provides an informative Introduction.