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Similarities Between Civil Disobedience And Letter From Birmingham Jail

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"Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau and "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Lither King Jr. Both had the same idea but they were shared in different ways. "Civil Disobedience" was written in the 1830's where as "The Letter From Birmingham Jail" was written nearly 100 years letter. Both pieces of writing showed civil disobedience, and they were shared in the same way, but they both had different views. In both pieces of work the authors have different views of the injustice in the government.
Both men, Martin Luther King Jr. and Henry David Thoreau, targeted larger groups rather than smaller ones. They targeted the larger groups because they could get more people to listen to them or to hear them out. Thoreau said that unfair laws
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