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Fighting For Justice In Civil Disobedience By Henry David Thoreau

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Fighting For Justice Laws are put into effect by the government in order to keep people safe and look out for their well-being. However, laws can sometimes be unfair or unjust in regards to other people. If I think that a certain law is completely unjust, I would be willing to break that law and suffer whatever punishment comes along with that action. Discrimination can come in many different ways, shapes, and forms. There are laws in place to prevent certain discriminations in the United States, but unfortunately this does not stop every single person from being discriminated against. America has coined the expression “land of the free”, but is that really the case? Same sex marriage was officially legalized in all 50 states in June of …show more content…

He demonstrates that he would be willing to go to jail to fight for an unjust law when he says “Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just a man is also a prison” (14). This quote that he said shows that he believes if the government is being unjust, then a true virtuous person belongs in prison, as a result of fighting for what they believed in. Thoreau shows that he was willing to do whatever it takes, including spending time in a jail cell, to make his disagreements of the law known. Even if there are a great deal of L.G.B.T supporters in the world, how many of them would actually be willing to speak up and fight about a particular issue when the situation has arisen? I agree with Thoreau when he said that “There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man” (8). There will be a large crowd that believes in the right thing but will not do anything about it, and then there will be that one person who actually stands up and fights for the issue.
Even though there are laws in place today that are supposed to protect the rights of the L.G.B.T community and the way that they are treated, I would be willing to fight for the rights of any L.G.B.T. identifier because no person deserves to live behind a shadow or live in fear of what might happen to them if they were to come out to the public. In my eyes,

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