Martin Luther King Jr. both wants people to realize that civil rebellion is sometimes necessary to prove a valid point. Both men used some form of protest to show their disagreement with the laws in place. For Dr. King it was a protest against the racial inequality that oppressed his people. For Thoreau it was a question of protesting against a tax that he neither agreed nor supported. They also want people to think for themselves and not respect laws they don't think are right. Ultimately we should challenge our government to make it work for us and not against us. Dr. King said, “One has not only a legal but also a moral responsibility to obey just laws. On the contrary, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." So if the majority is working against what you believe is morally right, take a stand against the majority, because “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice