Does anyone know what the Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau, is about?

Answer 1

Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thoreau’s belief that people should not allow governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty both to avoid doing injustice directly and to avoid allowing their acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War.
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I think that about sums up all that I know about it. Couldn't have written it better in my own words. I was just going to say "it's about him living his life without being bound by society's rules" but the above is better. LOL.

Answer 2

http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html