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The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
...officers as possible foreign spies. Fortunately, the incident ends amicably. As the war ends, one objector is sent to prison as a draft resister. Henry David Thoreau’s famous essay “Civil Disobedience” ( 1849 ) has inspired many people to resist war and injustice, including Danes who opposed Hitler during World War II. Thoreau advocates disobeying laws that uphold slavery and the Mexican war. “Under a government which imprisons any unjustly,” he argues, “the true place for a just man is also a prison.” In a furious attack on U.S. war crimes in the...
