“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves” said Western philosophe Henry David Thoreau. From this quote and Thoreau’s lecture turned essay entitled “Resistance to Civil Government” or also known as “Civil Disobedience.” Thoreau uses his own encounters to relate an inequitable government by disobeying by staying the night in jail and not paying his taxes in protest of slavery and the Mexican-American War. He influenced others like Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Russian author Leo Tolstoy who all went “disobeyed” and fought for what is right. Going against the rules isn't just in politics or government, disobedience can be found in music, literature, and poetry. For example, in Kurt Vonnegut's
