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Thoreau's act of civil disobedience was him protesting slavery, so he didn't pay the poll taxes enforced at the time. He spent one night in jail and did not use violence to protest.
Thoreau's definition of civil disobedience is not only achieved through non- violence but finding it in one's self to do the right thing according to your morals and values not according to the...