Or shall we gain an insight on their situation and understand that the world we live in today needs to have civil disobedience in what we consider right and wrong. ... David Thoreau once wrote, " It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the 13 eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support, " (Thoreau 310). ... David Thoreau can agree that religion sometimes holds us back ...

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