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From: Peacework
Date: 20060901
Author:Swanson, Craig

Henry David Thoreau was a poet, essayist, and naturalist. He spent a night in jail for not paying his poll-tax, but made the act a medium for protesting both the United States' war in Mexico and slavery. Mr. Thoreau is credited for inventing the concept of civil disobedience (which he writes about in his essay of the same name). As for Mr. Thoreau's influences, one of the sources of his ideas is the Hindu classic, the Bhagavadgita, (Sanskrit for "Song of the Lord").

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