“I am in Birmingham because injustice is here…compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid,”(King). Martin Luther King saw an injustice in America and decided that direct action was the only way anything would ever change. As a society, we must follow Dr. King’s example: When faced with injustice in our society we must force change …showed first 75 words of 940 total…

…showed last 75 words of 940 total…Thoreau has unrealistic expectations and should have done more for his time; had he done this, he would have had a greater influence on us today because we would be living under a government that he helped build. It is better to have a direct effect on a society than to write all of your thoughts down with the faint hope that someone someday will read them and do with them what you could not.