"L'enfer c'est les autres"--JP Sartre This year, students will explore the theme of otherness. What defines the mainstream and how does this mainstream dictate to others? What does it mean to be marginalized? How has the mainstream impacted the world of ideas across the centuries?
Friday, October 8, 2010
Civil Disobedience
Click here for an annotated version of the text:
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/civil/
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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