Henry D. Thoreau's Definition Of Civil Disobedience

The idea of changing something that a higher power holds against you, is the framework for the civil-disobedient ideas of Henry D. Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. They’re true definitions of civil disobedience are a little different than one another, but they all follow that simple framework. Henry D. Thoreau’s definition of civil disobedience is the original title of his book, Resistance to Civil Government. In this document Thoreau puts forth many rationales such as resisting taxes or passive resistance. Thoreau however did have to pay for one of his rationales. He didn’t pay his toll tax at the Mexican border as to boycott the war, and he had to stay over night in jail until one of his relatives bailed him out. A quote he came up

Martin Luther King Jr. had all of the tools and ideas from people before him to help make his dream a reality. In other words, Thoreau and Gandhi walked so he would then be able to run. idea of Civil Disobedience was, “One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly lovingly and with a willingness to accept the penalty.” As I have said before this takes both the ideas from Gandhi and Thoreau and gives people the strength, they need to get the change they desire. King had a four-step process to his idea of Civil Disobedience, and it was, “Collection of facts, Negotiation, Self-Purification, and Direct Action.” Negotiation was believed to be the first step you should follow before Satyagraha in Gandhi’s beliefs, and Self-Purification was the main step in Thoreau’s beliefs. Then direct action is the same last step in all of their beliefs and this also goes with the passive resistance belief that Thoreau came up which was one of the stepping stones for the Civil Rights Movement. Thoreau, Gandhi, and King’s ideas all were very similar with some minor tweaks to each of them to tie into the current circumstances of which they all had to live in. The framework ideas of Civil Disobedience will continue forever, but