![]() ![]() “During my student days I read Henry David Thoreau's essay On Civil Disobedience for the first time. ![]() Thoreau warns us that every institution, including our own University, is in danger of passively and invisibly doing violence to even its most sacred principles, and this monument and the essay it celebrates stand as a reminder that the strongest institutions are the ones that continually question their own virtue. and Mahatma Gandhi were profoundly inspired by the essay as they worked to topple the British Empire in India, and the American Apartheid system in the Jim Crow South. This Monument is dedicated to Henry David Thoreau’s essay On Civil Disobedience, and to its continued warning that the worst of human behavior occurs under the cover of our own indifference, apathy and compliance. ![]() Roberts-Wainright Scholarship Awards for Creative Writing Political Science and Public Administration Northeast Florida Center for Community Initiatives (CCI) ![]()
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