Essays on Civil Disobedience, Paperback

Inexpensive but substantial, this anthology ranges from Henry David Thoreau's great nineteenth-century polemics ``Civil Disobedience`` and ``Slavery in Massachusetts`` to more recent writings by Aung San Suu Kyi as well as Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of the subversive Russian rock group Pussy Riot.
Additional selections include Leo Tolstoy's denouncement of capital punishment, ``I Cannot Be Silent``; Bertrand Russell's ``Civil Disobedience and the Threat of Nuclear Warfare``; and ``Love, Law, and Civil Disobedience`` and ``Letter from Birmingham City Jail`` by Martin Luther King, Jr. Other contributors include William Lloyd Garrison, Albert Einstein, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Editor Bob Blaisdell provides an informative Introduction.