After spending his night in jail for refusing to pay his taxes, Thoreau said he felt "as if he alone of all his townspeople had paid his taxes. (Thoreau 319). Thoreau is trying to say that he feels like he is the only one who has actually served his time in prison and paid for his justice more than those who oppose it and claim not to have done so. King went to prison because of a sit-in program at restaurant counters. While King was in prison, he wrote a letter that was officially addressed to the eight white clergymen. As I mentioned before, King believes that he was wrongly imprisoned and that he is a responsible citizen, even though he knows he was wrongly imprisoned. While both being in prison, they agree that injustice exists. Thoreau sees injustice as a pressure that can wear down the machine. King believes that injustice exists and that tension must be created through direct action to negotiate with the machine. I also agree with King here, on how he thinks injustice still exists because till this day there is injustice in our country and others as well. In fact, the black community today faces injustice at the hands of law enforcement. A few black men have been killed by the police and the government is doing little to fix this problem and letting the police get away with it. This is an example of injustice to all black people, as the police seem to murder these innocent people solely because of their race. This