Summary: Listen to episode 26 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Civil Disobedience & Citizenship. Edited and adapted from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau.<br> <br><br><strong>Podcast Excerpt:</strong> <em>Today’s podcast has been adapted from Henry David Thoreau’s famous essay on Civil Disobedience, produced in celebration of Martin Luther King Day. Dr. King was a great admirer of Thoreau’s essay, describing it as an eloquent argument for why we are obligated to non-violently disobey laws we believe are unjust....<br> <br><br>How does it become a person to behave toward this American government we have today? I answer, that you cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the government of endless war and mass imprisonment, who serves the interests of corporations, banksters, and Wall Street over those of individual citizens and small business owners...</em><br> <br><em><br> <br>There are millions who are (in their opinion) opposed to this eternal war on terror, this abrogation of our rights, this mass incarceration of their fellow citizens, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; who, esteeming themselves good citizens, sit down with their hands in their pockets, and say that they know not what to do, and thus do nothing.....<br> <br></em><br> <br>
