Joline Hollingsworth
February 5, 2014
6th block
Community Essay
Thesis: A community that will strive in the twenty-first and be productive and successful must be simple, cooperative, and united. To begin with, a community must have simplicity to survive. “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail”( Thoreau 297). Thoreau says that to mean that the community spends too much time on expensive things, and things that truly matter; they do not look at until it is time to need them. If the community would come together to look at the community’s need instead of their individual want the community would be successful. Needs and want differ just like simplicity and extravagant differ. Furthermore, a cooperative community produces a productive and successful community. “I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.”(King ) King was saying that they could win this battle because the people cooperated with him. They did not act as if either were better than the other, but as they were all working together for the same cause. As a final point, a
