today there are many exceptions on laws for religious reasons. Although many people believe that their conscience knows right from wrong and they can make their decisions based on that and not a law. Henry David Thoreau wrote an essay called “Civil Disobedience” stating his reasons and ideas on why we should “resist a corrupt and over-reaching government.” A few of his ideas were that a government that governs little is better, our American people made this new world not the government, and that “even
others would contest that the government is over-stepping its bounds. Henry David Thoreau’s statement “Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one more step to obtaining it” from his essay “Civil Disobedience” is wise advice to making a difference in one’s community and country. Thoreau’s quote was encouraging during the Transcendentalist Movement because it encouraged people to have an opinion. There are always people who do not care about
In his essay “Resistance to Civil Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau gives his insight on what he suggests is a better/fair government. He believes the government to be artificial and driven by the powerful. Thoreau explains how this can be fixed by rebelling against the government and demanding change; the very definition of civil disobedience itself. Being against the Mexican-American war and slavery, he saw them as acts of aggression and arrogance. Thoreau not only influenced people of his time
relating the suffering that minorities were enduring to the privileged white class. Wisely, King used allusions in his writing that allowed readers to draw from well-known events in history and relate them to their own world. King engaged in civil disobedience, but as he points out, so did biblical figures. "It was evidenced sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar; on the ground that a higher moral law was at stake" (210). King's audience of Christian