Henry David Thoreau believed in universal freedom and equality for all individuals regardless of race or gender. He advocated civil disobedience and wrote about living simply in nature in his book Walden. Thoreau opposed slavery and war, believing governments should serve the will of the people by protecting rights and promoting peace. He admired nature and believed observing it closely could help one understand their true self.

1. WHAT IS FREEDOM? HENRY DAVID THOREAU AND FIFI BAIDEN

2. HOW DO I DEFINE FREEDOM? Universal Freedom

3. Equality for all individual.

4. Racial and gender equality.

5. Thoreau’s Idea of freedom Universal Freedom

6. Civil Disobedience “ There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.”

7. Who is David Thoreau? July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862

8. Concord, Massachusetts

9. Transcendentalist; Ralph Waldo Emerson.