The answer is <span>D. In this essay, he argued that being moral and just came before allegiance to the government.
While it is important that there were other people like Gandhi and King who promoted civil disobedience, that slavery was ripping apart the nation, and that the government itself was immoral and corrupt, the main point is that civil disobedience must come before allegiance to the government. Both Gandhi and King would use civil disobedience to fight a government they believed to be corrupt. Thoreau, in his essay, could be an influence on these two with his words which were written many years before.</span>
