Comparing Civil Disobediance and Black Like Me (Thoreau and Griffin)

It doesn't matter how Webster's dictionary defines justice, because there are so many ways to define it, and everyone seems to disagree on it. Henry David Thoreau and John Howard Griffin lived in different times, and places, yet they both developed unique, but similar views on the topic. Thoreau expresses his views on justice through Civil Disobedience, and Griffin puts these views into action in his book, Black Like Me. In Civil Disobedience, Thoreau, at …

…a black man. He lived on both sides, then stepped back to look at the situations and analyze what he learned from his own personal experiences. Another similarity in the views of the two is on personal responsibility, and also on being able to take a step back, and analyze a situation (Thoreau, 14). By that, Thoreau meant that each person was an individual, and not just a member of the society that they lived in.