ot;Your money is your life, why should I haste to give it my money?" It was important to Thoreau to get the public informed about the War, and make people think why it was wrong to support it. Thoreau never rallied thousands of people together to get reactions. Instead he went to jail to protest and wrote his essay "Civil Disobedience." His statements were to get people to think and take their own approach to the situation.
             Many years after Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," Dr. Martin Luther King took the same idea of passive resistance to protest the injustices brought upon the African American race in the United States. Dr. King, like Thoreau, was willin
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