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The extremely simplified definition of civil disobedience given by Webster s Dictionary is nonviolent opposition to a law through refusal to comply with it, on grounds of conscience. Thoreau in Civil Disobedience and Martin Luther King in Letter from Birmingham Jail both argue that laws thought of as unjust in one s mind should not be adhered to. In Herman Melville s Bartleby, a man named Bartleby is thought of by many to be practicing civil disobedience. His actions are nonviolen
The French Revolution was considered an epoch making event of the entire world. This was because its effects, its impact, its universality. When compared to a flood, like the flood the French revolution swept away everything and left behind new ideas such as republicanism, equality, democracy, nationalism which were beneficial to the entire world. The object of this paper is to focus on how the French revolution both violated and supported the motto of the revolution which was ‘equality, libe