You wish civil rights hadn’t succeeded as much as it did? You think increased investment in the war in Vietnam would have been useful? Regret women getting the

You wish civil rights hadn’t succeeded as much as it did? You think increased investment in the war in Vietnam would have been useful? Regret women getting the vote? Since long before Thoreau, people have used civil disobedience to rouse the common sense of right and wrong to have laws changed. Any man who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community on the injustice of the law is at that moment expressing the very highest respect for the law.