Henry David Thoreau was a 19th-century American essayist, poet, and philosopher who is best known for his beliefs on civil disobedience, which influenced the Civil Rights Movement. He argued that individuals should not permit governments to overrule their consciences and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice.
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