This episode of the egg timer explores Henry David Thoreau's 1849 essay 'Civil Disobedience' .  Thoreau's approach to civil disobedience is put in the spotlight and we see how his view compares and contrasts with that of major 20th century advocates for civil disobedience such as Gandhi and King.

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Art Attribution: By Edward Sidney Dunshee (1823-1907) - Anna Ricketson (1902) Daniel Ricketson and his friends[1], Boston: Houghton Mifflin, OCLC 2952813, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24950780