st the segregation of blacks and whites. They both lived in times of civil unrest; during their lives, the country was torn and separated over issues that, to this day, are remembered as some of the most controversial issues America has ever had to face. Despite the fact that their ways of thinking made them part of a minority, each man stood firmly rooted in his beliefs, and though they faced consequences such as imprisonment and death, they didn't sway in their pursuit of truth and justice. Although these men were very similar in opinions and in values, they were different in some ways as well. Their agendas differed; in "Civil Disobedience," Thoreau, for the most part, spoke out against too much government, while in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," King argued ag
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