"Civil Disobidience"

Civil Disobedience

 

In modern day society, war seems like normal thing; part of everyday life. I strongly believe that stopping the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are something worth civil disobedience. Nothing is coming out of the war, including the people fighting it. War is doing us, Americans, no good. In Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," he clearly states, "It does not educate" (Thoreau 212). The government wants our troops there, but do the rest of us? As a country, we must stick together, and not just send people to fight for us. An excellent quote to describe this is, "I think we should be men first, and subjects afterward" (Thoreau 213). This is telling us that we should stick up for what we think is right, and in this case, that would be stopping war. We should not just be the governments puppets. We are all people and we all have a say, but are we really ever given a voice?

 This quote by, Thoreau, is telling us how if the government is ruling us to do or believe in something we do not want to, then we should rule against it.