sentences:  When Amos Bronson Alcott resisted his taxes to protest war and slavery, three years before Thoreau would resist his taxes over the same issues, Alcott's action was explained within the context of "non-resistant" philosophy.When Thoreau explained his own tax resistance, he took pains to distinguish his theory from theirs, titling his essay "Resistance to Civil Government".In "The Service", Thoreau tosses barbs at the non-resistance preachers, warning his readers that pacifism can be a temptation to passivity