Considering "civil disobedience," which best describes one similarity between thoreau and martin luther king, jr.? both expressed complete faith that the government would change unfair laws. both felt that people have the moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. both were assassinated because of their ideas and influence. both felt that prison robbed them of their drive to persevere.

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Both felt that people have the moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Civil Disobedience, is an essay written by Henry David Thoreau, influenced by slavery and the mexican-american war, Thoreau in her essay invited americans and citizens of a country with a government to disobbey unjust laws and considered that it was the duty of the people to make the government make adjustments to moral and new ways of living, just as Martin Luther King Jr always fought agaisnt unjust laws agaisnt african americans, as well as segregation, which was all legal at that time.

Thoreau and Martin Luther Jr. King both felt people have the moral responsibility to disobey unjust law.

Civil disobedience is when an individuals willfully disobey the law or the order of authority publicly in order to make a political statement. Such individuals are arrested and mostly are charged with crimes.

Participants are charged with crimes such as trespass, failure to obey or failure to disperse. Mostly, civil disobedience doesn’t result to violence. The main intention of individual that willfully disobey the law is to pass a political statement, which is realized through media coverage on the particular issue. Sometimes people protest a law they feel is unjust and pass a message across to the authority through protesting and showing willingness not to obey the law.  

In the United States, blocking traffic, staging a sit-in at government offices are the common types of civil disobedience.  The prominent advocates of civil disobedience are Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther king and Mohandas Gandhi.  

The philosophy of civil disobedience has been used by religious groups, labor movement, feminists, pacifists, suffragists, disabled supporters etc.  

Animal right movement has also embarked on civil disobedience a couple of times, some of the activist protested by chaining themselves to barricades, staged peaceful sit in.

Although, in the first amendment, traditional protests are legal but activities that are disruptive such as blocking doorway or driveways are illegal. They are also form of civil disobedience.  

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”