Three different theories on the Civil Disobedience have been introduced by Gandhi, Thoreau, and Martin Luther King. The three authors have many different views on the injustice of the government and the resistance. All of them are agreed on the idea that the people have to disobey and resist if the government does not rule fairly.

Thoreau does not believe in government at all. His idea of the government is no government. He thinks that the government should not support just the majority of the people. He considers individuals as nothing. He says that an individual can’t change anything especially against the majority. He believes that the government is too corrupt to consider people’s needs. In the second part of his work, Thoreau calls the government “it” to show its inhumanness. He writes about the resistance to Mexican War. However, he considers this war a bad one just because it is proslavery war. If the war could be against slaver, a Civil War for example, Thoreau would probably support it. In contrast to Thoreau’s views, Gandhi believes in peace against war.

Mohandas Gandhi has a different perspective on the topic of violent resistance. For him violence is not an issue. He does support the civil disobedience but in a peaceful and radical way. He believes that each person can even die on the matter of the cause if it is going to help others. His idea of the government is that each person can choose a government they trust or not. If people do not trust the government they protest. However, peacefully and only peacefully. Maybe quietly too.

Martin Luther King’s work is different in the point of the equality. He believes and fights for the equality among people. He believes that going to a prison for a good cause is a good thing to do. He can strike and disobey, but also it is supposed to be a peaceful strike. No harm! That is the main the point of the civil disobedience for Martin Luther King.