Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience 
In Henry David Thoreau's " Civil Disobedience" he states that most people sign themselves over to the government, which makes them blind to what the government decides to choose for the people. Thoreau also states that we should listen to our intuition and if something doesn't feel right, we should question it. He encourages us to protest against what we feel is wrong. " Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislature." ( Thoreau, 213).
In this quote Thoreau questions what would make you sign yourself over to someone whom "knows better" than you do.
    "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty, the obedient must be slaves"(Thoreau,) In this Thoreau points out the fact that most of the people are slaves of the government, without realizing it. Those who are disobedient are truly free with themselves, and free from the government. Those people are not slaves to the government, they see the injustice of some laws, and act against them. Which can also help others see the wrong.
" For I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I , and in many things those whom neither know nor can do so well- is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and the consent of the governed." ( Thoreau, 216) This quote explains that Thoreau would listen if the government actually knew what they were doing, instead of pretending.
   Today people are working for justice and fairness, like Thoreau did, on a plethora of situations. One of these situations is when gun owners sat outside recruiting offices with large guns. It was not exactly breaking the law, because having your gun unhidden is legal. Although this situation could be considered civil disobedience because after the shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee the government had not changed any rules about recruiters having guns inside their workspace. Which people didn't agree with and so they started protecting recruiter offices around the country. They were asked to leave and to stop protecting the offices, but they refused to listen, because they believed this was an issue they knew more of.