Comparison Of Civil Disobedience And Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Civil Disobedience was written by Author Henry David Thoreau and published in 1849. Letter from Birmingham jail was written by Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in 1963. I will be comparing their two works. Author Henery David Thoreau and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr were like each other because they were fighting for justice, constitutional rights and protested. They were different because Thoreau and King were from different times and they fought for different things that was currently going on while they were alive. Author Henery David Thoreau fought for what he believed in he did not believe in slavery and thought it was unjust. For example, “There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in