ts forms and urged readers to let their feelings be known about their
government if they wanted things to change. He wrote, "Let every man make
known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be
one step toward obtaining it" (Thoreau 48). Thoreau advocates civil
disobedience as a form of political protest, and he supports taking a
sharp look at laws before blinding following them. He states, "Law never
made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the
well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice" (Thoreau 48).
He sees the only way to create a "perfect" world is to rise and
speak out when injustices occur, and this
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