Civil Disobedience

Mr. Thoreau's Civil Disobedience was a reading that I found to be very interesting. This was my second time reading it. This time I feel like I got more out of it because I knew what I was looking for because of taking this class. I was comparing its ideas with other readings in this class. Like Leibnitz for instance Thoreau and Leibnitz are very different because Leibnitz think that everything is good and the government cannot be unjust. While Thoreau is saying that we have an unjust government and as a people we should protest it. He used slavery for example and how the government back then supported it and since it was unjust we should have went against it. I think this is true to some extent, people should learn to speak up and fight when something is wrong. It is not good to be a supporter of something that we know is morally wrong.