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Here is another article written by Susan Rosenthal. In this article, she explains why she does not want to vote for Obama. Her beliefs of the ideal government goes against those of capitalism and support those of a social party. At the end of the essay she talks about how one shouldn't complain if not voting.

she ends her essay with this words: "I want a completely different system, one that meets people’s needs. That won’t happen until we stop accepting what we don’t want and organize and fight for what we do want."

In civil disobedience, Henry David Thoreau talks about defending one's rights and that the majority of the power should be possessed by the population not by the government. When oppressed, one should found a way to be heard.

"I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name - if ten honest men only - ay, if one HONEST man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. "

"Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose."

Thoreau talks that it takes one people to take action and make a global change, or just a local change. On the other hand Rosenthal talks about waiting until EVERYONE is prepared to make a change.

Both of these writers have powerful and similar thoughts and ideas, but they both think different when it is time of projecting and exerting the ideas.

Which way do you think is a better way of acting. Which of the two writer's ideas do you support more? is there time for waiting for everybody to act up as a group?