Civil Disobedience USA

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security (Stanton, Par. 1). Thoreau and Stanton are both angry at the injustice that they are seeing in their society and they both want a society with no government than a society with a government that creates and implements unjust laws.




Works Cited

King, Martin Luther Jr. “Letter from Birminghan Jail. ”  African Studies Center University of Pennsylvania. 24 Feb. 2008. <http://www. africa. upenn. edu /Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham. html> Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. “Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. ” Sunshine for Women. 24 Feb. 2008. <http://www. pinn. net/~sunshine/book-sum/seneca3. html> Thoreau, Henry David. “Civil Disobedience. ”  Thoreau Reader. 23 Feb. 2008. <http://thoreau. eserver. org/civil. html>