at present exactly applicable to the Indians in the Transvaal." He later concluded: Martin Luther King Jr. American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was also influenced by this essay. In his autobiography, he wrote: Martin Buber Existentialist Martin Buber wrote, of Civil Disobedience Others Author Leo Tolstoy cited Civil Disobedience as having a strong impact on his nonviolence methodology. Others who are said to have been influenced by Civil Disobedience include: Suffragist Alice Paul, President John F. Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and various writers such as, Marcel Proust, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, and William Butler Yeats. References Citations Sources Peabody, Elizabeth P. (ed). Aesthetic Papers. G.P. Putnam (New York, 1849). Available at the Internet Archive External links Full text at Project Gutenberg Civil Disobedience by Thoreau – Britannica 1849 essays American political books Essays about politics Civil disobedience Essays by Henry David Thoreau Nonviolence