Martin Luther King Jr. holiday has been observed every third Monday of January since 1986 and was Jan. 16 this year. It is a day when we acknowledge the leading civil rights leader of the 20th century ...
Careful observers of actions by environmentalists such as splashing paintings or gluing themselves to pavement recognize that the activists come from a long tradition of civil disobedience. The ...
Thoreau's refusal to support what he saw as injustice culminates in his essay "Civil Disobedience." After refusing to pay four years of poll taxes, Thoreau is briefly imprisoned. Thoreau is adamantly ...