"Civil Disobedience," an essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., was written by the transcendentalist A) Louisa May Alcott. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) James Fenimore Cooper. D) Margaret Fuller. E) Henry David Thoreau.
Civil disobedience is a book written by Henry David Thoreau, published in 1848, in which he criticizes the authority of the state. It inspired Ghandi in his resistance against british occupation in India, and Martin Luther King Jr. in his fight against racism in the US.
