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civil disobedience
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Thursday, October 2, 2025
A review of “Gandhi” (1982 movie with Ben Kingsley)
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“ The government of the territories now in the possession or under the government of the [British] East India Company , and all powers in re...
Friday, July 12, 2024
A review of Henry David Thoreau’s “On Civil Disobedience” (audiobook)
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“I heartily accept the motto,—‘That government is best which governs least;’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and system...
Monday, January 28, 2019
Reading about the trial of Socrates in the original Greek
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates at his trial, as recorded by Plato's “Apology” Before beginning this project...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
A review of PBS's “Citizen King” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but b...
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