Thoreau and Gandhi use the same notation on how to peacefully state their opinion. Fighting and protesting violently is not the answer, furthermore Gandhi explains this. “One way is to smash the head of the man who perpetrates injustice and to get your own head smashed in the process.”(Applebee, 377) Gandhi was trying to explain how war doesn’t help anything. In fact, war makes everything worse for countries. Gandhi and Thoreau's ideas are very similar, in the sense that they want to protest peacefully. They don’t agree with the government but they do not wish to start any chaos.
