Henry David Thoreau was an American writer who is remembered for his attacks on the social institutions he considered immoral and for his faith in the religious significance of nature. The essay “Civil Disobedience” is his most famous social protest. Thoreau believed that each person must be free to act according to his own idea of right and wrong, without government interference. Sharing some of the same political beliefs as Thoreau, Martin Luther King Jr. …showed first 75 words of 1019 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1019 total…to do so. They both believed that an individual is better than a society and the only way one can expand is if they break the machine of government. The risk these leaders brought upon themselves is one they risked for mankind. It is important that these individuals did what they believed should be done, otherwise society would be a mass of weak thoughts that would hold down the growth of man as an individual.