He exhorted the people to resist unjust laws especially if they require a person to be the agent of injustice to another. Thoreau believed that the individual was a higher and independent power and the state obtained its legitimate power and authority from the individual. The goal of a civil disobedience act or movement is to get the unjust law amended or repealed and the people practicing it are willing to go to jail or suffer in other ways for their objectives. People who choose to practice civil disobedience deliberately break a law, which they consider as unjust, to bring attention to the injustice. It usually refers to refusal to obey civil laws and decrees through passive resistance. The concept of "Civil Disobedience" before 1900 was the same as it is now since it has been mainly derived from Thoreau's initial concept.
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