The Dogs on Their Leashes

I was born in Romania, my parents were born and raised in Romania. Despite how beautiful the country is, while my parents were growing up it was under a harsh communist rule. The citizens of the country had little to very few rights. My parents always tell me about the harsh conditions they lived under such as the limited amounts of electricity they got per day, each family only received half a liter of milk per day, depending on your license plate number you were only allowed to drive certain days, and much more following these harsh conditions.

                                                            

Henry David Thoreau wrote about the importance of civil disobedience in "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience." Based on his ideas he thought that men "think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them." In the case of communism the action of one man against the government would most likely get him killed, so of course they need a larger force in order to conquer the government. The majority of Romanian citizens and citizens of other communist countries all were against the government but for a long time they did not have the power or opportunity to oppose the government. I think that it is not so much that men feel the need to wait for others to take action, I think it is more that men need to have time to confide in their fellow citizens. I also think that if a revolution took place at the wrong time it would not work out in the favor of the brave citizens.