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“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right,” he wrote External link in Resistance to Civil Government, the essay known as Civil Disobedience.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
Then came his 1849 essay, later read by people like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
Or maybe not so incipiently, according to maritime analyst John Konrad, in his widely read essay partly titled, “What If the U.S. Navy isn’t in a Hurry to Reopen the Strait?”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Importantly, Beethoven’s symphonic essay on leadership and power was followed by the premiere of orchestrations by several composers of selected variations from Frederic Rzewski’s “The People United Will Never Be Defeated.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
With all of those red lines and squiggles dancing around on my essay, I wasn’t foolish enough to think he meant to tell me anything good.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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