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'''Henry David Thoreau''' (1817-1862) was an American [[writer]] and [[philosopher]], and along with [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], a major figure in the New England [[Transcendentalist]] movement. He is perhaps best known for his book ''[[Walden]]'' (1854), an account of a two-year period during which he lived in relative solitude near the shores of Walden Pond in [[Massachusetts]], and for ''Civil Disobedience'' (1849), an essay which depicts his arrest for refusing to pay a poll tax in 1845 that would support the [[Mexican-American War]] and [[slavery]]. In ''A Plea for John Brown'' (1859) he defended the [[Harper's Ferry Raid]].

'''Henry David Thoreau''' (1817-1862) was an American [[writer]] and [[philosopher]], and along with [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], a major figure in the New England [[Transcendentalist]] movement, which was an offshoot of ''[[Romanticism]]''. He is perhaps best known for his book ''[[Walden]]'' (1854), an account of a two-year period during which he lived in relative solitude near the shores of Walden Pond in [[Massachusetts]], and for ''Civil Disobedience'' (1849), an essay which depicts his arrest for refusing to pay a poll tax in 1845 that would support the [[Mexican-American War]] and [[slavery]]. In ''A Plea for John Brown'' (1859) he defended the [[Harper's Ferry Raid]].

His work ''Civil Disobedience'' would served as inspiration for [[Mohandas Gandhi|Gandhi]], [[Tolstoy]] and modern civil rights leaders in using non-violent means of protest to further a cause.<ref>The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989</ref>   

His work ''Civil Disobedience'' would served as inspiration for [[Mohandas Gandhi|Gandhi]], [[Tolstoy]] and modern civil rights leaders in using non-violent means of protest to further a cause.<ref>The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989</ref>