Civil Disobedience

Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau

These three things are all linked together.
BUT
Do they all mean different things?

Thoreau and King both believe in CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, but they believe different things about them. They have different morals.

King will fight for something if it is against his morals, people don’t get to be apart of the major “vote” or in other words, the majority rules AND degrades human souls.

Thoreau thinks that jail only imprisons the body and nothing else. He feels that majority rules through power. If there is more of a group than the other they will automatically win because there are more of them, not because they are right. I am not saying that the majority rule side is always wrong, but is it always best?

What Thoreau says about how jail only imprisons the body and nothing else, I think that is very true! You aren’t fixing the real problem by locking these people up. They are still there. They are still thinking of new ways and better ways to go back to their life. Life in jail/prison can change people but is it true for everyone in jail? Once they leave jail a “change” person will they go back to their old life? Or will they stay good?
We don’t know the answers to these questions, but we all secretly hope that no one is evil, and that we are all inherently good people, and that we can change bad people.
Who really knows if we can?

BOTH men believe in CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE BUT they believe in doing it differently.

For CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE you need:

1) You have to have an unjust law
2) You need to break the law
3) You need to be out in the open and peaceful! (nothing hidden)
4) AND you must accept the consequences