Civil Disobedience

What is something worth civil disobedience? 

While I was reading "Civil Disobedience" by Thoreau I realized that there is many things worth civil disobedience. Civil disobedience by definition is the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest. This means that the people do not have to what the government tells them to do. 

Something worth civil disobedience? 

Equal rights. 

Equal rights seem to be a idea our world just can’t grasp. The Human race ranks themselves against each other based off my factors. Such as race, sex, sexual orientation, social class and the list can go on and on.Equal rights have been a large problem throughout all human history. Past issues and problems are having a comeback, and a big one is the racial issue. Accounts in Ferguson is a main example in today's world. The media has mixed up and confused the world, but we do know that the racial tension is rising. The civil rights movement in the 1950’s-1960’s did not completely dissolve the issue of racism. Old problems are still not solved but equal rights have been advancing greatly in pervasiveness. Violence is being used instead of the world coming together and discussing the issues that are present. The more they are ignored, the more destructive disobedience makes it’s comeback. 

Thoreau said,"The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies." He is saying that the government expects everyone to comply with whatever they say and to agree with them. He believes that the government is corrupt. Peaceful forms of political protest will aid on the moment to gain mass.