1. WHAT IS FREEDOM? HENRY DAVID THOREAU AND FIFI BAIDEN

3. Equality for all individual.

4. Racial and gender equality.

6. Civil Disobedience “ There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.”

8. Concord, Massachusetts

9. Transcendentalist; Ralph Waldo Emerson.

10. Author, Poet, Philosopher etc

11. Civil Disobedience and Walden

12. Influences: * Martin Luther King *Mahatma Gandhi

14. Opposition to war Lost of lives, Depression, Unemployment, Refugee problem -Mexican War *refusal to pay tax Thoreau said, “ The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.”

16. Protect the rights and liberty of the people.

17. Promote peace and harmony Thoreau said, "That government is best which governs not at all… I ask for, not at once no government , but at once a better government. "

19. -trees, mountains, animal.

20. Thoreau's Walden

21. Thoreau said,

22. “ In observing nature closely free from society’s material distractions, one may achieve understanding of one’s true nature...I looked through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.”

23. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. www.americanswhotellthetruth.org 2. www.articlemyriad.com/civil_disobedience.html 3. www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/ 4. “ Civil Disobedience .” In The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 5. www.transcendentalists.com/civil_disobedience.htm l