![]() ![]() This method of combating injustice demands self-sacrifice and hence, inflicts suffering only on one party. ![]() Essentially, Gandhi advocates for civil disobedience in the form of satyagraha. The thesis in Gandhi’s essay is that civil disobedience is the most commendable approach to resisting unjust rule as opposed to violent retaliation. The common factor among all three writers is that they all advocated for a form of resistance to unjust rule in society and considered civil disobedience to be their moral obligation. Thoreau’s call for civil disobedience was motivated by his dislike of slavery in America Gandhi opposed British invasion of India and King called for civil disobedience in his struggle against segregation of African-Americans in the United States. Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King are three of the most well-known advocates of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is described as “the refusal to obey certain laws that are considered unfair, as a peaceful form of political protest” (Brownlee 34). ![]()
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