action to another man would not even be worth the risk of getting thrown in jail, but to King the sit-ins were worth every second that he sat in jail. His actions were self sacrificing and totally unselfish. He believed in his rights as a man no matter who you were.The biggest difference between Martin Luther King and Thoreau in my opinion was organization. Thoreau had absolutely none. His opinions would change so many times in his letter that he sometimes sounded hypocritical. He holds, if you can gather a thousand people then maybe something would get something accomplished. But who has time to organize every individual? Martin Luther King however was well organized in his letter and his acts. He wrote his letter with every thought carefully picked and sure that he got his point across. King also believed that you should find people with the same thoughts as you and should form a group. He believed that every person has the potential to help build a better society for all of us.Martin Luther King and Thoreau were almost a hundred years apart. In those hundred years not much has changed. People are still being treated like animals and laws are made to favor the powerful. However the belief of equal rights will never change no matter how years go by. King and Thoreau were as different as night and day, but their beliefs and goals were identical....
