Thoreau contends that men have lost the free will to make individual decisions regarding war, slavery, and domestic issues because government imposes on its citizens only in its own self interests. (Thoreau 1706). He states government loses its integrity when willing to consider profit over the interests of its citizens, and basic human rights such as slavery and war. (Thoreau 1707). He considers slavery as a “hateful and stupid enterprise? (Eulau 119). Thoreau feels such deep disgrace being …showed first 75 words of 719 total…

…showed last 75 words of 719 total…many non-violent revolutionaries such as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Each of them used Thoreau's methods as their means to pass their message to mankind. The concept which suggests that the external is united w! ith the internal is the focus of his writing. That man as a subject, nature the object, which shares the same divine constitution as himself, offers external images to the ideas of the man's soul. (Ruben 2). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**