I. Origins : Edward Hart and others: the Flushing remonstrance (1657) -- Jonathan Mayhew: "discourse concerning unlimited submission and non-resistance to the higher powers" (1750) -- John Woolman's journal (1760) -- Isaac Backus: "an appeal to the public for religious liberty" (1773) -- II. Conscience vs. law in the mid-nineteenth century : William Lloyd Garrison: "review of Gerrit Smith's letters" and "trial of rev. Mr. Cheever" (1835) -- William Ellery Channing: "lecture on war" (1838) -- John Pierpont: a discourse on the covenant with Judas (1842) -- John Greenleaf Whittier: "Massachusetts to Virginia" (1843) -- James Russell Lowell: "on the capture of fugitive slaves near Washington" (1845) -- Francis Wayland: The duty of obedience to the civil magistrate (1847) -- Henry David Thoreau: "resistance to civil government" (1849) -- III. Disobedience to the fugitive slave law of 1850 : Lewis Hayden, William C. Nell, and others: "declaration of sentiments of the colored citizens of Boston, on the fugitive slave bill" (1850) -- Theodore Parker: the function and place of conscience, in relation to the laws of men (1850) -- Samuel Willard: the grand issue (1851) -- Nathaniel Hall: the limits of civil obedience -- Daniel Foster: our nation's sins and the Christian's duty (1851) -- Charles Beecher: the duty of disobedience to wicked laws (1851) -- Gerrit Smith: the true office of civil government (1851) -- Thomas Treadwell Stone: an address before the Salem female anti-slavery society (1852) -- Joshua Giddings: speeches in congress (1850-1852) -- Wendell Phillips: speech at the melodeon on the first anniversary of the rendition of Thomas Sims (1852) -- Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson: Massachusetts in mourning (1854) -- Henry David Thoreau: "slavery in Massachusetts" (1854) -- Lydia Maria child: they duty of disobedience to the fugitive slave act (1860) --
IV. Disobedient feminists : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and others: "declaration of sentiments and resolutions of the first woman's rights conventions' (1848) -- Susan B. Anthony: statement to the court (1873) -- Abby Smith: speeches and letters (1873-1874) -- Militant suffragists picket president Wilson (1917) -- V. Civil disobedience for civil rights : A Philip Randolph vs. Wayne Morse (1948) -- Martin Luther King, Jr.: three statements on civil disobedience (1961-1968) -- Stokely Carmichael: "black power" (1966) -- VI. Conscientious resistance to war in the twentieth century : John Haynes Holmes: "a statement to my people on the eve of war" (1917) -- Carl Haessler, Maurice Hess, and Roger Baldwin: statements by conscientious objectors (1918) -- Albert Einstein: the two percent speech (1930) -- Jessie Wallace Hughan: The beginnings of war resistance (1935) -- Leon Thomson, Donald Benedict, David Delinger, and others: why we refused to register (1941) -- Albert Bigelow: "why I am sailing into the pacific bomb- test area" (1958) -- Charlotte E. Keyes: "suppose they gave a war and no one came" (1966) -- Michael Ferber: "a time to say no" (1967) -- Daniel Berrigan: the trial of the Catonsville nine (1970) -- John William Ward: "to whom should I write a letter?" (1972) -- VII. Epilogue : Jeb Stuart Magruder: testimony before the senate select committee on presidential campaign activities (1973) -- William Sloane Coffin, Jr.: "not yet a good man" (1973).
Origins -- Conscience vs. law in the mid-nineteenth century -- disobedience to the fugitive slave law of 1850 -- Disobedient feminists -- Civil disobedience for civil rights -- Conscientious resistance to war in the twentieth century -- Epilogue.
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