Newspaper Article: Activists Stop Paying Their Student Loans
Analysis
This article talks about Corinthian college students refusing to pay their student loans. The movement was less about political protest against a specific injustice and more about a withdrawal from corrupt society to find the truth with oneself like Thoreau did. A major connection that can be made is when Henry David Thoreau explains how he believes in only supporting what he feels is right. The article shows examples of civil disobedience showing how college students stand up for what's right. This kind of example is exactly what Thoreau and Emerson believed in, and Thoreau specifically says this in his ‘Resistance to Government’ excerpt “but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it” (Thoreau 1).