Civil Disobedience

I choose the first passage that says
I heartily accept the motto "That government is best which governs the least"; and i should like to see it acted up more rapidly and systematically.

This particular states that Thoreau feels that the government is not a good government and it is the best government when it is not working or causing harm to the american people.

I choose this statement because it is a true statement in my book i feel that the government cause us more harm than good.  I feel this way cause the government control to much and the rules and regulations are not made to help the working middle class or the poor.  They look at ideas and dont really weigh the pros and cons of how it would affect americans in the long run not the short term benefit.

In the African American Odyssey part 1 and 2 with reading the The Atlantic Trade, Liberation Strategies, Fight for Freedom and Other Libeations.  It tells you how african americans were stolen held hostage and transported to other states and country.  It also tells you how they felt like slavery was wrong and the fight to try and rid slavery.  This was in connection with our readings cause they were saying how they were trying to do away with slavery.  How the government at one point felt that slavery was inhumane.  How when slavery was at a low was in the mist of no more the cotton fields came along and because of the production and wealth from the cotton slavery had now started being done illegally.